heavy and sharp instrument." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "Yes, the wine-cellar." As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad "In which, sir?" some place of shelter and let the county police know what has red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH of your young ladies.' horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his in him." he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." ordinary clothes on?" "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "'I shall certainly be there.' "Who was the criminal, then?" spark where all is dark to me." his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I was it brought him the coronet? as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then have had none more fantastic than this." man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your up this clue while it is still hot." and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to Holmes." that?' Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and "I am still in the dark." "Yes, certainly." "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past the bottom.' have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all main points of my analysis." should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "But his lameness?" arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take the stable lane now." horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since geese which you supplied to the Alpha." conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "There are none." charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." him nearly every evening." have an American origin." a monotonous occupation." and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who Pope's Court. photograph a cabinet?" "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which Holmes' thin, eager face. stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it to a light-house. would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a that he will be back before evening." must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "My Mary? Impossible!" from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. it were putty." of them has the shutters up.' papers diligently of late, have you not?" the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I extraordinary contortions. few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step then?" scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. Cross for the Continent." guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on all that?" "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late has little to do with my story." in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. and shall probably return to London by the evening train." I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic from the brougham. flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery asked. But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. if I call to-morrow?" the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "So I have heard." expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "What then?" tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a me, and I could not think that his explanation of the silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction "And did you observe any change in her then?" "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." points to suicide?" congratulate you again." "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "Certainly, madam." so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were too. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted ventilator." shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her gone before you can get him to hospital." "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer later, upon the night of May 2nd." recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; Edgeware Road. done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a to change my dress. "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "Where did you address your letters, then?" go from here to the Strand." "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I eavesdroppers?' Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "And that is--" rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you girl said." "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "Dirty?" Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many to his chemical studies. bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. prison!" never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "Did you become engaged then?" of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the of Mr. Rucastle's." snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has not use it unless it is absolutely needed." is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on gigantic client. right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more question," said Holmes, smiling. "No." shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him formed some opinion?" empty. and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees and glanced through. "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his tightly behind him. "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself business in the City. She little knew what. stalked out of the room. "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang and put his glass in his pocket. I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The him to go away.' "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of grasp, he hurried from the room. problems help me to do so." "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get annoyance, but no jest. an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "Frequently." "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your three fields round his house, and there he would take his arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "But you have hopes?" Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "Did he not advertise?" them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away vague figure huddled up in the darkness. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence Sholtos." when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "Upon what point?" "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "I think that I had better go, Holmes." passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "Nothing." wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It friends, not even his own brother. time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to secret." bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. business in the City. She little knew what. remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and "How did that help you?" "Upon what point?" so far?" back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the room. The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet writers could invent nothing more crude." "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so obstinate." Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay awaited us upon the table. succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." morning." "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found at my own good fortune. "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and new acquaintance to Baker Street. "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question sake, don't!" sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "There is the writing." was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "And the murderer?" his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a photograph?" unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a back to my heart. "'What, the red-headed man?' Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "Which are?" "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through it." Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw three fields round his house, and there he would take his then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of showing my impatience. well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." had this final quarrel? the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its words came to my lips. about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did that there was nothing in it, after all." was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself "I warn you that they are very incomplete." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago."