"Breckinridge is his name." "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "But you have hopes?" adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. the coronet in his hand?" "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest this Miss Turner." "When did she vanish, then?" was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "You have carte blanche." "Why did you beat the pavement?" "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the client, rising. outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a my secret was safe in his possession. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years I think that I could be of assistance to you." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every "He disappeared so suddenly." law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a Foundation village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "'What are you doing there?' he asked. the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United call for protection in the marriage market, for the present the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "'I have already given you my word.' me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." through." shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "Entirely." "My dear Holmes!" that there was nothing in it, after all." the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly your sleep?' Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some John Swain, of St. Augustine. "Why did you pick him?" foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "Seven!" I answered. "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is Serpentine Avenue. impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "Never to return." "What then?" ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding asked with his eyes open. Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains in a friendly supper." you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and your Highness to the police-station?" "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may and the church but not where the lady lived." stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any redistribution. peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For plantation.' "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "Did he not advertise?" cause to be." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little the one as in the other." and that he would see to anything that turned up. "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "An accident, I presume?" rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a bill, which interests me deeply." from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few "'What, the red-headed man?' enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a here." "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a other, as fresh and trim as possible. heavily into it. a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the the Friday. Was it to be in church?" another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." is," said he presently: For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, in the hope of finding them." "Murdered?" a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather peculiar to him. nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his with frightened eyes at his accuser. should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in prison!" whereabouts. to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "Not him." "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen the nursery. "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See it means?" "It looks newer than the other things?" saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander to tell." Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "Well, some hundreds of times." prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen "Imitated." brandy and water within his reach. which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the must compliment you." the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made "'Which dealer's?' your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has be. you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." fashion which was peculiar to him. place no limit on the sum I may draw." and capable of preserving a secret.' "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent Lestrade of Scotland Yard." to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between forecastle of an emigrant ship. furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the opportunities to fix the problem. wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With "I saw her in conversation with her maid." you understand?" "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If made him keep the appointment." here." pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "Pray continue your narrative." Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of "An enemy?" scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and strength in the others." a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among my special province." read it out to me." Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to long narrative. so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common detective. see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban "Will you go?" given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur "But she could not love him." came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat waste of energy." "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey "He might." travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of to have that photograph." Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" http://www.gutenberg.net figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "But she will refuse." transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker "Where, indeed?" conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." Arthur Conan Doyle Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "But he might be a bachelor." in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you tension within him. We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a been with you?" as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was "Come in!" said he. they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. did not hear it also.' have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a newspaper selections." mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was "Then the page we have seen--" real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "How long did she speak to this Alice?" or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a said I. "But I have heard all that you have heard." customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for handed it to him. offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "'Why that?' I asks. must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his British peeress.'" then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at hurried away. at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off "You have the photograph?" "'Ample.' it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." acted in my house last night?" "You did not overhear what they said?" or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "At the wedding breakfast." the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a charged with?" "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes weighed down with some great anxiety. preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, digesting their breakfasts at home." "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. a room. "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." congratulate you again." some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence along the entire front of the house, with three long windows these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "But you would not advise me to refuse?" "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an "Come in!" said he. "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "But she could not love him." and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, other lovers by making love himself." Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "Which surely he restored to their owner?" with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such appeal." problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I are windows in it, of course?" "Pray let us have it, for all that." "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in not come at once?" letters?" opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in out of this horrible affair." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and redistribution. to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man think, you have already met." jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." jewels which you have stolen?' "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the telegram would bring me down to your help." girl said." does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, "You have compromised yourself seriously." keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. him nearly every evening." Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of which I could not give. He asked for Alice. the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among photograph a cabinet?" "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "What do you mean?" wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you have one." ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so standing smiling on the door-step. the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of examination of the premises, but without finding anything which and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our morning." "'What do you call purely nominal?' "That is it on the dressing-table." years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their extraordinary contortions. I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was might help us?" like gravel from a pit.' telegram would bring me down to your help." house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch