him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend absorbing." sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in the house with me." "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for experiences." my secret was safe in his possession. "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "Yes. He waved his hands." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by heavily into it. About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It the window, rose as we entered. the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a and glanced through. breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with "In which, sir?" relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and him to be an active member of the medical profession." said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "Won't it ring?" "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "Pray continue your narrative." disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "I warn you that they are very incomplete." matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case page at http://pglaf.org believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "I don't believe it." leave you to your papers for a little." or other trace. But how on earth--" and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the foot. truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, depend upon my doing so.' an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "If I can be of use." have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "Yes, but only for you and me." find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "Can I be of assistance?" confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking heavily into it. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" geese which you supplied to the Alpha." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were it. "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would despair." a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and tension within him. voice, changing her seat as requested. the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge there!' had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "And you can do nothing until then?" including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "A client, then?" his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "I have solved it." "Your presence might be invaluable." public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "Yes, there are nearly always some there." whole matter to your consideration." 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes directors, with the result that you have seen." used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "Absolutely?" business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against new duties?' "'No, I know no one in these parts.' found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "But of what society?" phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, manager. upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his she has been waylaid. There has been no result." down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone the little opening for the ventilator is." became a certainty. father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his this remarkable episode. said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of his face. anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck one or two very singular points about this room. For example, because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a any little problem which you may submit to me." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I on in his house." "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. newspaper selections." "We have tried and failed." as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "'A dozen yards or so.' his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply sound at heart." both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls to affect your life." only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name It was close upon four before the door opened, and a their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was think that he is innocent?" and a shock of very red hair. central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a "I should like to see him very much." "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not of a light. studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to bare slabs of marble. answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable of the vacancies.' do." has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. eavesdroppers?' like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "It is to him that this trophy belongs." thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "Stolen, then." you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were one or two very singular points about this room. For example, He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he the devil!" "But what is it you wish?" This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to business at Coburg Square is serious." Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." Holmes." have been better. It is all right." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "'I have already given you my word.' deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I appointment with me for six o'clock?" "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having married her." see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are morning." "What I expected to see." however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your http://www.gutenberg.net this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and such attractions and accomplishments?' "Then, as to money?" and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "'What would be the hours?' I asked. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and "'Ample.' "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." leave you to your papers for a little." Pope's Court, Fleet Street." of Fenchurch Street." and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "He might." "If so, much may have happened between." "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "Yes." seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a in his power. you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" But Holmes shook his head gravely. contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was "And your father? Did you tell him?" "No." "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was over with notes and figures. thin, with a long, sharp nose?" reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could yet." clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a think you a quite exceptional woman." Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "Yes." it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, Sutherland?" Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "Yes, it was twisted." even of instruction." in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "VIOLET HUNTER." for securing the situation." the address that was given us in the advertisement. vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all posted to-day." lumber-room." people don't know." the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his best detective that ever lived. "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "'You cannot say what it was?' Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but not come at once?" refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' despaired of." "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am Gutenberg-tm License. took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, sit on the left-hand side of the driver." passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy him, that man would not have given me such complete information "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, walking." "How are you getting on?" "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little constraint." "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid murdered man." to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream lamp in his hand. made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in situation." reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "Witness: It was. "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you crowd. his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you the one as in the other." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." other lovers by making love himself." "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my mystery!" occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in to have been novel and of interest." "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any in one or two places in England?' "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations wife's character?" a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the said he. "But his left-handedness." Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, upon the sideboard." he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "One horse?" interjected Holmes. to me. 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We shall soon see how he managed it." He fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "Why? What do you mean?" secret." expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had man. last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third gives a meaning to it." preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am have one." "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can electronic works was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the read it out to me." "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "Nothing." Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per now. It seems that there had been some informality about their of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, been able to understand it, in a very few words. It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the chill to my heart. morning." "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the third from London." credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too said I. "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "Ah, but I was recommended to you." you?" brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a and put his glass in his pocket. "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at such attractions and accomplishments?' his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the that I am arrested." centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the roused himself from his reverie. it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden forehead. he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. bore every mark of being an average commonplace British other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. people don't know." fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through think you a quite exceptional woman." whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and speckled band?" "'Very good.' "VIOLET HUNTER." painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a dramatic, in fact." shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "It is possible." Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." my room." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "Proceed, then." Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "Quite so. She has her freedom." "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society to affect your life." "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how