and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about trying to your nerves." "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of hurried away. my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and one of them." and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the this remarkable episode. the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to all-comprehensive glances. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in own family. "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is strong and stiff." never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I "The King of Scandinavia." especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "'Stolen!' he cried. down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, himself in a perplexing position. "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, and your relations to her." became a certainty. The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the about. Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "It is possible." I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little matter." branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly made his money." the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "One of his hands." inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the that you can jump it.' peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of six. Come in!" misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless I took the paper from him and read as follows: Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were did not hear it also.' "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried without success. At last the little money which I had saved began Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself "And you don't know his address?" fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the purpose equally well?" "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "Nor running a chance of arrest?" their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If four million human beings all jostling each other within the true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." the side-table." "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp His name is Francis Prosper." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, "Was your sister dressed?" "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock we went to search for him, face downward in a little "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I looking up at the numbers of the houses." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some But Holmes shook his head gravely. "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be tied." him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." extraordinary contortions. towards the blaze. We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not been anything against him. He had for years been known as a air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, as he remarks, very much against the son." miles off. your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know about here speaks of his kindness to him." and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood lost his Christmas dinner." has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. mystery!" mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I chamber." rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his but preventing her from injuring another. didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes if only as a check to my own memory." down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a union?" it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third details should find their way into the papers. Inspector passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King main points of my analysis." explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in populous neighbourhood." France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "But you were on a friendly footing?" all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "Why? What do you mean?" There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, not, dad?" she asked. is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable think, you have already met." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "No, distinctly professional." Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" himself to hunt down. Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "Quite so. She has her freedom." relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was "Nor running a chance of arrest?" hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little "Dirty?" murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner to his chemical studies. when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other Pool. Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock like gravel from a pit.' "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and Surrey." however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of the one as in the other." question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "But you have hopes?" down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "Yes, certainly." was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "Yes." possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "Very truly yours, your only hope of safety." back to my heart. "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "Did he not advertise?" rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just "But how?" the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, beyond words. it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. less than 26s. 4d. before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be "I would give my fortune to have them back." business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard advice." "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. appeared upon the scene." being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, against a man in the prime of life?" re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, what these perils are?" suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which "Oh, yes, easily." "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical better grown goose." the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, "And how did you verify them?" "Yes, from Horsham." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I for its centre. "I say that I have solved it." wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding such attractions and accomplishments?' "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "And how did you find out?" misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. leave you to your papers for a little." would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you observed. "But to whom?" We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. golden eyeglasses. occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over lost his Christmas dinner." copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "By train from Waterloo." and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "'Never,' said I. you in your example." whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in Doctor, of the paper and the date." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from husband's writing, madam." eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his to Leatherhead. events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute the little opening for the ventilator is." A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at death." things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman and put his glass in his pocket. Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has "Oh, yes, easily." her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "Stoke Moran?" said he. whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" introspective fashion. was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his three of the beryls in it, was missing. will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" mystery may be cleared along those lines." circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir the running down." "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "I will get her to show me." "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely one of the states of the Union." "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, some terrible trap for her." intimate personal affairs in this public manner." tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at himself to hunt down. Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "That sounds a little paradoxical." "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish "Were they all fastened this morning?" I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "Well, but China?" "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. appeared upon the scene." "Yes." However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the fashion which was peculiar to him. belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if I have it here in my museum." wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other him!" constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been