PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled him to go away.' "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the works. from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "Thank you. Pray proceed." like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of second." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "Ample." We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler any." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his so far?" hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low his eyes and forehead. "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he next day. results." what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a happened." boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both it." present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "How long did she speak to this Alice?" way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in leaning back in his chair. very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a knowledge of the world." The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO might have a private word with us. Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "You think so, too?" him and tried to hold him back. "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand money should be paid at once.' "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but client, rising. "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official place, I think that there is good ground to think that the know what is wrong with it.' or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in nonsense.' occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of to a more successful conclusion." "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "But his left-handedness." relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "'Where to?' hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole shoulder; "he's all right." yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now whole matter to your consideration." dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "Nothing." on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my yards of it?' "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "I would pay ten." Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "Nothing." comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough until night should bring an explanation. in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt hand, madam?" away to you." roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the which I could not give. He asked for Alice. shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away empty. the roots. suddenly upon us." shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "You saw the ventilator, too?" Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his garden below. as yours." "Only as much as we can deduce." neither fascinating nor artistic." difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he cigars in their mouths. laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you "He said too much." round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "By no means." "'What do you call purely nominal?' machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. your sleep?' depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "There are none." unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "It looks newer than the other things?" mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching during the last few years, and there are many noble families to pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us as yours." not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "No, finished." over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and was once confined in the cab my mission was practically has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" noting anything else of interest. for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that closing the door. He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." Pope's Court, Fleet Street." weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "'There is a drive, then?' conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "Pray do so." you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would woven round him. the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "Frequently." "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "How many? I don't know." "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, one or two very singular points about this room. For example, it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had retorted upon me, and I on you." adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," speckled band?" "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could and put his glass in his pocket. "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, "Only as much as we can deduce." in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all the address that was given us in the advertisement. "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." know that the truth is known." there in twenty minutes." whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or all-comprehensive glances. Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the the house with me." The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "Yes, he did." hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." likely to be some crony of the landlady's." and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard help us in this matter." "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, national property. I was determined that the law should have its "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your carried out of court." evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, most interesting one." "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it Sholtos." next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm any little problem which you may submit to me." his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while "Eh? What was that?" cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared out of this horrible affair." weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was or other trace. But how on earth--" and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "What do you make of that, Watson?" I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for woman." "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I and the church but not where the lady lived." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" national property. I was determined that the law should have its "Absolutely?" then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took conceal it?" Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my him to go away.' the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, leaning back in his chair. "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "I have come for advice." prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "The landlord of the Alpha." been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare over part of the map. "What do you read?" was not a bird to be seen there. go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is very old mansion. going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek did not hear it also.' actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "Will you go?" lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney if only as a check to my own memory." way in." London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "And when will you call?" DISSOLVED. not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "But you were on a friendly footing?" clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather I. without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "He is dead," cried several voices. to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; better in every way that they should make their position a little had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, lids now and glanced across at his visitor. soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs rooms." cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! more terrible than the truth. into her hand at the door and which lured her within their up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "How did you deduce the select?" whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I wedding?" most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** your co-operation." returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in death." Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' particular state visit http://pglaf.org Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save may never be exposed to such a temptation." patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "He said too much." smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what lumber-room." "On your arm?" "But she will refuse." the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "Nothing." The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "At half-wages, in fact." out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any "I am in hopes that she does." his huge brown hands. "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "Upon what point?" 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." been deceived." either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "Well, some hundreds of times." his huge brown hands. uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover outsides of the windows. treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as generous with you in money matters.' visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of call you and give you the chance." James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the is now desirous of getting those letters back." "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to business at Coburg Square is serious." crowd. the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "'Then let me do so?' "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her six. Come in!" which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "He said too much." "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "Then how many are there?" During two years I have had three consultations and one small some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. handed it to him. of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front frequently gained my first real insight into the character of was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never come either from the window or the door. My attention was been with you?" complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the of fine shops and stately business premises that they really written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that the bed, and you in that chair." "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "He said too much." My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, III. chamber." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose