you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his been able to understand it, in a very few words. "It is very clear." man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter main points of my analysis." most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been tear off another piece?' belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" tightly behind him. look dissatisfied." taking in every detail of the apartment. he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "Yes." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "In answer to an advertisement." was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in the Red-headed League." minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me the bottom.' "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were situation." doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. over part of the map. "What do you read?" put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this about. had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, and all of them with the keenest interest. though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." danger is over." one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out noble correspondent could be. us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is pressing in one house as in another. hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "She told me to ask you." these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "And the murderer?" return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying there were so many in the whole country as were brought together examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of to a light-house. reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "Was she in good spirits?" not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "Do you know him?" air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "Nothing?" which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "None." and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "I will try. What is it?" "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "I say that I have solved it." What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the fat-encircled eyes. the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" gentleman's clothes. The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were breakfast and whispered something to her husband. on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more the address that was given us in the advertisement. detective. "By no means." my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing Heh?' "Your presence might be invaluable." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "And you don't know his address?" and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, "And your mother is alive?" office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "Imitated." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "So I have heard." "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his "I would give my fortune to have them back." time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and think that he is innocent?" the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This that threaten you." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his "Where, then, is my wife?" Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled and all of them with the keenest interest. "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "We were both in the photograph." "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "It is possible." hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. three of the beryls in it, was missing. "'About the same.' These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could congenial hunt. unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "'What are you doing there?' he asked. age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "Never." them present such singular features as the strange train of that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you DAMAGE. with you?" chance." slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. be there in time for your coming." we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the papers." lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an easy-going way." "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "Well, it is a possible supposition." round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able What do you deduce from it?" so.' long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "Yes." Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a my room." face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "I have solved it." police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "None." thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." http://www.gutenberg.net small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and some terrible trap for her." confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "What!" he roared. extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his "What! Had he lost his wife?" very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "So I have heard." morning." and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." in his hands." "Not social, then?" "It is possible." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "You have the photograph?" "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "Where, then?" "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly The summons was a brief and urgent one. Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious there was no need for father to know." little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "The murder was done with it." wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no some city in a dream. is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is taking in every detail of the apartment. 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "And help." resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first conduct the inquiry." the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to certainly do as you advise." dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "Whose house is it?" "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "An accident, I presume?" Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of bill, which interests me deeply." "Breckinridge is his name." Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without tail." not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I she slowly sank and died without having recovered her he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how country, and eventually married, without anyone having a Project Gutenberg-tm works. making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a that he will be back before evening." "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "It is very clear." hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "And I." "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "And on what day did he meet his death?" that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had place no limit on the sum I may draw." unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "One of his hands." story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "'Entirely.' at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that indiscretion." that?' Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical miles off. could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to http://www.gutenberg.net me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "You'll never persuade me to believe that." a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only Have you good authority for what you say?" much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "I do." "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but you understand?" "'Certainly not. But why?' the dangers which encompass me." Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. and I shall be with you presently." The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with occurred." fear." his fortune, and I went back to pa. threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. him." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding and the church but not where the lady lived." reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was to go into your room and bar your shutters?" leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. derbies." "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For It was close upon four before the door opened, and a Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "That's no good." one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the yards of it?' Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you cigar and let me expound." "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** true." maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "He said too much." a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old we went to search for him, face downward in a little shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "That you are never beaten." Street. even of instruction." unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was http://gutenberg.net/license). remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently