I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." absorbing." written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. conceal it?" "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not which our visitor detailed to us. country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the call it cruel." "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and to that open window." as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "Ah, but I was recommended to you." the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and I leave." direction." and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are wedding?" suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "We were both in the photograph." suddenly upon us." dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before License. You must require such a user to return or the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "But your client--" clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke least a fellow-countryman. without success. At last the little money which I had saved began particular state visit http://pglaf.org more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open this poor creature." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "'And what are they worth?' I asked. time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, room. "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "Yes, it was twisted." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "No." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, suspect him." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand manager. which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." DISSOLVED. a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, "But you would not advise me to refuse?" the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for 1.E.9. someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective details should find their way into the papers. Inspector piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "I cannot imagine." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our License. You must require such a user to return or "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." politicians who had been sent down from the North. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue promised to bring home. man. I know him from the photograph." not fit the lock." father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the never will be, entirely cleared up. silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from You want to know what became of those geese?" John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was this unhappy family?" eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "Then I shall certainly come." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "Yes, it was twisted." doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." "Absolutely?" on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink respectable self." absorbing." from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and "And who is her maid?" society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, particular state visit http://pglaf.org "Nothing." "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how me. protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." if she died from some sudden fright." "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" do." locked. the night.' It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "I shall most certainly do so." flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And together. I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "I should be immensely obliged to you." "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some your Highness to the police-station?" my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and down in his armchair and closing his eyes. and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "Yes." "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of The note was undated, and without either signature or address. Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a astonishment. "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of any." "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. corner of the building. other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES "'Why that?' I asks. dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel relation between them, and what the object of his repeated his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who everything which you would wish to know." Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "And how did you verify them?" conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "Yesterday." "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than showing my impatience. "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to not fit the lock." King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she Chief Executive and Director donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate cup of tea. that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "My last client of the sort was a king." purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "And is that all?" liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of His smile broadened. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one the loss of it. "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such tell me that you intended to go into harness." while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw one of them." "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. felt the room to be a little close.' "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon them?" answer." "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting the very morning of the wedding." "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the back alive. friends, not even his own brother. someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of "What can it mean?" I gasped. squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat rooms." true." the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which place no limit on the sum I may draw." Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive mysterious business." halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with again before evening." in my life." deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I you give your casting vote to?" "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened then?" black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "'There is a drive, then?' Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or "Yes, from Horsham." me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "Oh, yes, easily." "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by I. on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "Here?" "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the were wasted." King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, main points of my analysis." to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "And how?" happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his get the tickets." The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box me have 200 pounds?' What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and think you a quite exceptional woman." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "Oh, fresh and glossy." friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get there." as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the of a light. "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "Yes, there are nearly always some there." Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "None. Neville wrote those words." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and to-night's adventure." here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "Yes." "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked I shall continue with my miserable story. "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "I cannot as yet see any connection." from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the writer." "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. shoulder; "he's all right." charge against him will break down." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "Yes, but only for you and me." the dangers which encompass me." His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions over with notes and figures. "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." your only hope of safety." Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per it." would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as question you as to those details which seem to me to be most "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the grasp, he hurried from the room. "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "But not more so than I to find you." This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed