"Will you go?" remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "Is he quiet?" wedding?" "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving meant it for the best. situation." joking. "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. was already answered. guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is "Just look it up, then." could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and already referred to. state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging is worth.' "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not attention." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in shoulder; "he's all right." unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a will find little credit to be gained out of this case." Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk "When did she vanish, then?" their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed "'And the work?' upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It "No." uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, the bottom.' maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran sake, don't!" his knees, staring into the fire. the room while you explain this matter?" enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled you." over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked dear old homesteads?" hard-headed British jury." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "And your father? Did you tell him?" "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He along the entire front of the house, with three long windows tell me that you intended to go into harness." "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at them?" "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. may have an influence upon European history." fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for the bed, and you in that chair." Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, has little to do with my story." was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "Yes." society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my think, you have already met." been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "Not particularly." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "Where to?" also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large shall use the carriage to-night." along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing and no precautions can guard against." to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took bachelor.' Clair, of Lee." reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a in his hands." "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so the running down." To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the not, dad?" she asked. Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." memory. against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "It is to him that this trophy belongs." not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us second window is the one that I jumped from." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together IS room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and again." might have a private word with us. in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "ARAT," I read. in a friendly supper." to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen highly," said Holmes. total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel Arthur Conan Doyle gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so waste of energy." Leave Paddington by the 11:15." prepare for the new role I have to play." "Eh? What was that?" go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." constraint." interests were the same as his." conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales works. See paragraph 1.E below. "What office?" usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little in a very precise fashion." hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he that, and I came down." do.' having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "'And what salary do you ask?' sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my he bowed and left the room without another word. fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if for the market.' which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, all-comprehensive glances. upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "The vanishing of the lady." as the one I chose?' Holmes' thin, eager face. As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, that I may have something better before very many minutes are thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for bore every mark of being an average commonplace British Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in he died? you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for down from London to inquire more deeply into it." observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen was the fact that his father should, according to his account, bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I lectures into a series of tales." sound at heart." from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his wedding?" in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my ordinary clothes on?" "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is It may be so in this case, also." Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads taking in every detail of the apartment. who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know to surprise her." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive union?" with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and assist you in forming an opinion." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow envelope. "Then I am your man." the ceiling. Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have It was close upon four before the door opened, and a myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw nice household for a young lady." "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able dramatic, in fact." narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling again on its way. "What shall I do?" and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "But you were on a friendly footing?" There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones "In answer to an advertisement." hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "On Monday." get the tickets." derbies." have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "Well, some hundreds of times." "Nothing?" moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it presume?" enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "My own seal." "And you don't know his address?" bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no newspaper selections." homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a third from London." when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a overpowering excitement and concern. so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the was not a bird to be seen there. Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous his huge brown hands. said he. "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" neither fascinating nor artistic." Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "Yes." "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as is acting for the best. "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I sentimental considerations in the background which would induce contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was subject to the trademark license, especially commercial doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems narrative." one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself been able to understand it, in a very few words. to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "A call for help, you thought?" before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" dead, shall be safe with us." only touch the interest." remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "'There is a drive, then?' "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the people in all walks of life. "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered writing, and yet I know it well." "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual "Very well, sir. And this stone?" "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a "She told me to ask you." man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "I should like to see him very much." alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and disturbance in my wife." Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is out of this horrible affair." finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late again on its way. the stable lane now." gives a meaning to it." the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of your Highness to the police-station?" "What are they?" resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon electronic works could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to tell him that I know him to be innocent." gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & for and were ordered to this address. I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "But she will refuse." other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "Then you may be so with me." assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "'What, the red-headed man?' cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered again, where I was soon asleep. cost them two and thirty pounds." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "But to whom?" pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "What, then, did Peterson do?" and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: which it had come upon my father." dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to or other trace. But how on earth--" "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss mystery!" midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." in one or two places in England?' habit of advancing money.' the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet to change my dress. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. sneer upon his pale face. were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." charge against him will break down." snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that light and attacked it." "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the only touch the interest." "Yes, it would be as well." upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a there is a decided draught." the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn