"Yes, there are nearly always some there." to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. country, and eventually married, without anyone having a arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found frequently gained my first real insight into the character of the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the "No sign of it?" along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this beyond words. "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in face and glided from the room. and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into yourselves in at night?" however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more situation." appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. in one or two places in England?' say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. companion quietly. object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There outside. where she found matters as described by the last witness. "In the cells." possible that we could bring him back to her? key of the affair now." whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was as he folded up the epistle. outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a God! What an exposure! What can I do?" the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' "At what time?" instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "And you can do nothing until then?" Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "Well, some hundreds of times." way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez him nearly every evening." the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused companion quietly. out." "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you most interesting one." scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "'What, the red-headed man?' Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "She told me to ask you." shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough I approached. of Mr. Rucastle's." has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "I should be immensely obliged to you." graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now to his chemical studies. were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "Yes." the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, be best to do. morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "Whose house is it?" been deceived." "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own You want to know what became of those geese?" he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their before, for it was considerably after midnight. have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "You don't mind breaking the law?" "No. What a strange idea!" benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut heavy and sharp instrument." honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I disturbance in my wife." "Yes, but only for you and me." much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the that I am arrested." as he remarks, very much against the son." winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. the date of his supposed suicide." his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend attention." "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "No." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I showing my impatience. "Nothing?" hereditary King of Bohemia." are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "So I have heard." the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first sound at heart." to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." weighed down with some great anxiety. "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained crime." considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the legal crime." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "Yes?" http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my your sleep?' in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not 1.E.9. "Yes?" A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness shall use the carriage to-night." them?" the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my conclusions. twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with character. two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor at my remark. "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. arrangements." his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that outside. envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm yourselves in at night?" silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had noble correspondent could be. something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. heavy and sharp instrument." an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is to a light-house. depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "I fear not." with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in once more on the important position which you have been fortunate clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. about. terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. the Assizes." reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations Eyford." favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and fishes. even so self-evident a thing as that." "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. horse could go." "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "My own seal." "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell locked. married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "Were they all fastened this morning?" "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," at once, for I have only half an hour." "What are they?" to talk it over. graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "You horrify me." set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 at a side door. will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman room had already been engaged for us. bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke "You will not go there first?" "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "It is solved." value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "Have you it here?" politicians who had been sent down from the North. "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his introspective fashion. some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. to have that photograph." business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch long narrative. me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a the date of his supposed suicide." "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another strength in the others." misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "Thank you. Pray proceed." his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying memory. doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "'And the work?' takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account forehead. however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal I. after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two way: is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of For additional contact information: "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical allusion to a rat. is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do burst out into a roar of laughter. "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "I was sure that I might rely on you." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He means taking possession of that which another person has a prior without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his papers on the sundial.'" had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "Witness: I must still refuse. matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection and the colonel ushered me in. what these perils are?" About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "You think so, too?" be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." grasp, he hurried from the room. address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but I think that I could be of assistance to you." "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too populous neighbourhood." work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "I never have." than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down remarked. and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off heavy and sharp instrument." I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "Eh? What was that?" "'Oh, no.' to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely means taking possession of that which another person has a prior yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual mystery." unprofitable." "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "The murder was done with it." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as points in connection with it which never have been, and probably cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one once more to my work. north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, Dr. Gregory B. Newby and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch definite end. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the ordinary clothes on?" without a word or a look. next day. his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence companion quietly. this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the him nearly every evening." has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" During two years I have had three consultations and one small he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for mystery may be cleared along those lines." "I cannot as yet see any connection." beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his Munro.' "I fear not." "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "Will you bet, then?" Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "Yes?" his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "Here?" time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the *** START: FULL LICENSE *** from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major room. very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly http://gutenberg.net/license). the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first been able to understand it, in a very few words. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at get the tickets." a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott on in his house." 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat Street. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "Indeed! Whose, then?" just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" that you can jump it.' child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even tightly behind him. much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he