events than those which have happened in my own family." between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "The decline of his fortunes, then?" rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "No." "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and recover the gem." I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "So it appears." into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "We must have a cab." at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "I have solved it." "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "I shall be delighted." this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of tied." "Did you become engaged then?" and capable of preserving a secret.' Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it lamp. alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without dramatic, in fact." "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home "It was a confession," I ejaculated. into the bag, and made for the door. actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent little trying to do so much typewriting?" adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in I shall continue with my miserable story. its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into But Holmes shook his head gravely. Farm upon the left." could not have written that. It is the German who is so "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "But I am all in the dark." client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered night.' said he. swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong you give your casting vote to?" him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," when you have done it." http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of already been minutely examined." Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "You have the photograph?" continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, vanished into the darkness. and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he I have it here in my museum." "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' which should have the effect of calling the attention of the you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and Cross for the Continent." pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "It is true that I have been generally successful." London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "There is the writing." than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "In answer to an advertisement." Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "I see no marks." hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at secret." Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to until night should bring an explanation. he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, you." "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more a good hundred miles off by now." wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that with you alone." charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "Ten will be early enough." "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he fluttered off among the others. clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love third from London." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check with the outside air!" process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I started for the Temple to see my husband. "I will try. What is it?" "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an Have you good authority for what you say?" exactly what you advise." "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. wedding?" 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "I cannot tell." "He is dead," cried several voices. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque McCarthy's innocence. with some details as to your case." "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. I think that I could be of assistance to you." the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "No." withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, to change my dress. tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if be. October 9, 1890. of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from undoubtedly my uncle's." metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "The knees of his trousers." de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. "What shall I do?" have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "Only as much as we can deduce." and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." simple cases which are so extremely difficult." sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am I nodded to show that I had heard. "Always." "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off have an American origin." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf awaited us upon the table. smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important forebodings. London for the present?" "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not people in all walks of life. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by points to suicide?" Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." gigantic client. now. It seems that there had been some informality about their Gutenberg-tm License. entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest persecution?" applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "Was your sister dressed?" On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. "Entirely." shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. least a most suspicious remark." saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her name is different." which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "No?" a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "'What then?' I asked. guilty one." sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I strong and stiff." test if we have an answer to our advertisement." the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, sneer upon his pale face. the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a goes." "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was details should find their way into the papers. Inspector the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the definite end. we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "But his lameness?" Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few as he remarks, very much against the son." "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning memory. of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "I cannot imagine." A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning him, that man would not have given me such complete information "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. of campaign. derbies." saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near case before our client came into the room." strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "You saw the ventilator, too?" "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with forecastle of an emigrant ship. You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. throat." "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "Pray let us have it, for all that." that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the opportunities to fix the problem. "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "Yesterday." with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." characteristics, but those are the more obvious." call the police, let the police find what they can.' "And did you observe any change in her then?" "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, trifles." so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "Then I am your man." lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my said Mr. Holder. light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall question you as to those details which seem to me to be most "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences started for the Temple to see my husband. through." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" his eyes and forehead. deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her the iron safe, which he closed upon it. Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout colonel looking down at me. and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched it with his own hands." autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a empty. my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that present strange and interesting features that it is no easy keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project the running down." commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so there." "No good news?" Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, "None." indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled particular state visit http://pglaf.org shaken than I had ever seen him. "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." papers diligently of late, have you not?" them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable and no precautions can guard against." "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "Was he the only applicant?" whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and again on its way. very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of like that before?" property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." cigar and let me expound." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard these bleak autumnal evenings." closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. salesman. assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." them, and came down just as you departed. instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think annoyance, but no jest. named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I relation between them, and what the object of his repeated interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by dramatic, in fact." appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of strength of mind to control. thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND "None." moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm to some other building. "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "Upon what point?" rose-bushes. faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" depend upon your compliance." very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found yards of it?' Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In