"It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "It is to him that this trophy belongs." where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. bearing upon the case." States. excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "And the murderer?" with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "'Which dealer's?' Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, Project Gutenberg-tm works. same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is forecastle of an emigrant ship. "And help." Holmes." until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "Then you may be so with me." 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a been anything against him. He had for years been known as a request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "'I am sure that I do not know.' half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She voice. of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his to-morrow." slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every suddenly upon us." have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall nights." round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "Well, some hundreds of times." send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "It is a murder, then?" He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through Foundation He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through and it need not interfere very much with one's other provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "Where, then, is my wife?" crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is keep the flames under. the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "At the wedding breakfast." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until could go. there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But hard-headed British jury." sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' money should be paid at once.' salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to useful material for showing traces. The double line a little and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. developed." "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray miles off. little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "What are they?" "I shall most certainly do so." how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the is," said he presently: round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "Of what day?" that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those bore every mark of being an average commonplace British set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important following enigmatical notices: with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our Miss Holder?" few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "'I am sure if I had known--' have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. look dissatisfied." matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "But you would not advise me to refuse?" were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." deduce something from that?" "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." later, upon the night of May 2nd." strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "Yes." you want, then?' me what he had done with the three missing stones. "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "I cannot tell." wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then likely to be some crony of the landlady's." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our Henry Baker is a member." "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "You don't mind breaking the law?" routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining see me here to avoid scandal." Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "I am in hopes that she does." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could appeared upon the scene." in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet wife's character?" statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. gives a meaning to it." "The Cedars?" acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "How are you getting on?" "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush of Fenchurch Street." ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a certainly do as you advise." the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "Will you go?" eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent chill to my heart. It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then III. "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. I was concerned in it." cup of tea. "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "An enemy?" "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to "My own seal." "I cannot as yet see any connection." derbies." after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, disappearance of these gems?" trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are you found me to-night--and running through the front room she the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "I cannot think." my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "He disappeared so suddenly." one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "By no means." them?" willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "I cannot tell." The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and residence of the great financier. the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly himself to tell his story. and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "Yes." was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been that he will be back before evening." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of train from Paddington which would bring you there at about quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the where we are going." far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, strong and stiff." more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon and the church but not where the lady lived." glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "Oh, the cause is excellent!" is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" narrative." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature points in connection with it which never have been, and probably however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer and glanced through. with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "But what harm can there be in that?" breakfast and whispered something to her husband. suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If retorted upon me, and I on you." higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It Holmes' thin, eager face. propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their anything to do with the matter?" 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "Always." "At the wedding breakfast." pound a week." "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "'Very good.' that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that of note-paper. It read in this fashion: streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "What, then?" found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the not interfere, come what may. You understand?" staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "It is half-past ten now." hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought the matter." any more." eat it." place, I think that there is good ground to think that the consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping even of instruction." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "How are you getting on?" you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in children over to America with him, so that I found myself without there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "None." however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, unprecedented a position." evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "'Ample.' "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "You are hungry," I remarked. "What! a murderous attack?" took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a me upon any point which I do not make clear." with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "There is the writing." valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my comes from the middle window." Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a What do you deduce from it?" grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, signal between you and your father? Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "To an end?" other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with where Mr. Fordham shows you.' covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the public press." there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "Whose house is it?" "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his chemical work which was so dear to him. planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "It is true that I have been generally successful." of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin in his hands." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "I will, Miss Turner." was it brought him the coronet? had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more down from London to inquire more deeply into it." the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "Of what?" Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room sake, don't!" from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a danger is over." tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, there were so many in the whole country as were brought together As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the Stoke Moran." from the brougham. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for It may be so in this case, also."