"But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should you." nonsense.' case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "Only as much as we can deduce." fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "But to whom?" "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a relief. could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "No, I think that I'll take it." DAMAGE. hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative morning." while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the to his chemical studies. the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "That's no good." the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." success. "Yes." time." "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "No, finished." Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest "A call for help, you thought?" you came in." treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "'Tell me all about it,' said I. pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she "We were both in the photograph." fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. "I was mad--insane." "Why serious?" took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they sofa. This way, please!" feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to "I see no marks." attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is him and tried to hold him back. all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which said he. of a light. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "No." meant." squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and it right.' lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as your billet.' Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "I say that I have solved it." pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be "Pray tell us what has happened to you." just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed crowd. to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. business came to an end." back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "No." "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in not interfere, come what may. You understand?" sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your not personally threatened." "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "How did that help you?" to miss it." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I the inquest, and which are worth considering." wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. in. into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its "What then?" "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "None." Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "I think that it is very probable." details should find their way into the papers. Inspector very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to asked with his eyes open. bore every mark of being an average commonplace British photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. empty. "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "Why serious?" card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "'Is purely nominal.' work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 the iron safe, which he closed upon it. would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "And I." in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite sofa. This way, please!" daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was "Always." however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "Yes." disappearance of the bride.'" "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "Yes, certainly." him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back not within a twentieth part of the market price." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the charge against him will break down." grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar answer." doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." breakfast?" was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate question," said Holmes, smiling. you." to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter key of the affair now." bore every mark of being an average commonplace British I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "Very murderous indeed." while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." to miss it." the room while you explain this matter?" companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." disappearance of these gems?" heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining the little opening for the ventilator is." upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would affection." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "'No, I know no one in these parts.' bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "Nearly eleven." already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You chance at all." herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the the little opening for the ventilator is." roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "Never to return." "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly James Windibank. Voilà tout!" who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could Sutherland. "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." upon the sideboard." the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "It was an hour's good drive." "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to Chief Executive and Director seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of to affect your life." "Yes, he did." no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to was a perfect sample of the class. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in events than those which have happened in my own family." "You have but to name it." warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "Very well, sir. And this stone?" and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial business came to an end." beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has may never be exposed to such a temptation." "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are said I. through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "'In my own bureau.' which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "Quite so." her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when with you?" orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a ready to-morrow?' to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a lectures into a series of tales." very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But depend upon your compliance." case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have been deceived." "By train from Waterloo." learned something! Where are the gems?" "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your You want to know what became of those geese?" he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "What office?" only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "What can it mean?" I gasped. "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "I have seen the police." himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of was it brought him the coronet? "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds lips." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any something of him before." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "She showed me, as I told you she would." slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "Yes, but only for you and me." twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed colour had been driven from his face. best detective that ever lived. to have that photograph." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner McCarthy's innocence. it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "Very. But will he see it?" retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful "Proceed, then." All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble he bowed and left the room without another word. some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left But Holmes shook his head gravely. encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less crowd. state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, union?" unprecedented a position." "Witness: Nothing definite. copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "I have my revolver," said I. article?" good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be answered with a sidelong glance. staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea returning from some small jollification and was making his way charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "You forget that I know nothing about it." partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old then?" room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up the salesman. had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a http://gutenberg.net/license). Holmes' thin, eager face. Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, "She showed me, as I told you she would." the Friday. Was it to be in church?" perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "I would give my fortune to have them back." Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another discontent upon his features. thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of his knees, staring into the fire. adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "And from a noble client?" of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "No, my brougham is waiting." Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most "It is possible." loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. License. You must require such a user to return or "Yes, all." have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and Count Von Kramm." "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, breakfast." "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "I say it is." a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you