him!" when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and "I assure you that I am in your hands." Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of "Pray be precise as to details," said he. beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, it." the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a his fortune, and I went back to pa. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his mystery!" "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who must be when I saw the door open.' request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "I do." me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a direction." it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; one or two very singular points about this room. For example, The telegram which we eventually received came late one night He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and again, where I was soon asleep. "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "What then?" "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I call for it in person on Monday morning.' Cross for the Continent." lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and only touch the interest." Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our get the tickets." maiden herself was most instructive." push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my "Look there!" said he. "What then?" more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "I don't believe it." aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in fuss that is made over them." the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said noting anything else of interest. so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose recover the gem." them, and came down just as you departed. about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. of them has the shutters up.' effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "Will you go?" gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so congratulate you again." things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "'What would be the hours?' I asked. have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting you in your example." the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low vanished into the darkness. right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "She told me to ask you." exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a enough to aid us in our search." "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing all that?" purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it indeed which he could not unravel. I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "But how?" printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money companion quietly. singular points about the case. What did the police think of the carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "Yes." drawing your inferences." garden below. nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, washing it down with a long draught of water. shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I from you?" coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My himself to hunt down. and prosperity to your house. Good-night." had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all invisible to me," I remarked. case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." name is different." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time on in his house." went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "I have seen the police." his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his tail." leave you to your papers for a little." the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed "I cannot tell." disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There upon the white wrist. time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in Serpentine Avenue. "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "Yes, it would be as well." minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the manager. the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, opened the door, and slipped through. of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." make me his representative both with the servants and with the "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." "Then you may entirely rely on me." the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a "Breckinridge is his name." dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "An enemy?" "Ha! you find it so?" them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage colour had been driven from his face. is four-and-twenty." "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "And when will you call?" is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "But she could not love him." to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an advice." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable considering the formidable letters which were received by himself questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. yards of it?' "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been himself in a perplexing position. and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one the morning and make my own way in the world.' Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing one of them." "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes Edgeware Road. deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was over part of the map. "What do you read?" "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been place of silver." One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge again, where I was soon asleep. Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. not interfere, come what may. You understand?" man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "'There is a drive, then?' light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "I think that it is very probable." which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "And your mother is alive?" just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "Nor running a chance of arrest?" and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to Sholtos." lamp in his hand. its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a walking." cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the before the coroner and the police-court." looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "No?" with you?" I was concerned in it." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me see me here to avoid scandal." some terrible trap for her." "Did you become engaged then?" I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up upon the white wrist. have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was coroner's jury." Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "What do you make of that, Watson?" *** START: FULL LICENSE *** exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "'What would be the hours?' I asked. not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "Get out!" said he. first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." right! Sit down and let us talk it over." mystery." friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official points to suicide?" "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "In San Francisco, a year ago." "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my congratulate you again." "If I can be of use." "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." 'please.'" round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was lips." He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, the warnings." "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss your billet.' the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of detained." up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it it." right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "Then you may be so with me." breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at will be renamed. that "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "Get out!" said he. "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his me upon any point which I do not make clear." which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? "That is not always so easy." I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "And when will you call?" "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." seven miles from Eyford Station.' cup of tea. together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens "She showed me, as I told you she would." themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as which should have the effect of calling the attention of the may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical Mrs. Toller serenely. ordinary clothes on?" hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the security.' there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "You are hungry," I remarked. seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand the coronet in his hands?" gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, "And from a noble client?" too. the best of training." danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest emerged. Again Holmes raved in the air. base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "'Then let me do so?' The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence what these perils are?" As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this desk. "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary fashion which was peculiar to him. veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "His face fell immediately. silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine walking." "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "It is possible." completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable who was a member of your goose club." "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window go back?" "He disappeared so suddenly." her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "'About the same.' transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a foot. and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole