McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "But I have heard all that you have heard." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us man. I know him from the photograph." "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always "You horrify me!" It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect away to you." continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "When did she vanish, then?" anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to when you have done it." you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "Two days later this same performance was gone through under his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the you." the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he there were one or two details which were new to me. But the and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and IS I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "Certainly." bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "By all means." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss down in his armchair and closing his eyes. threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "If so, much may have happened between." what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time hand, madam?" the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and "Texas, I think." the loss of it. that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite pound a week." "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." the best of training." overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his in him." examine." that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." out." Serpentine Avenue. to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried of the one which your family is now devouring." "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" "'What do you call purely nominal?' will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the get her out of the way." "It certainly sounds feasible." fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas views." "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "Nor running a chance of arrest?" outside." "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe so.' "Yes, at the mines." Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "Do you know him?" a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "What do you mean?" and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." outside. beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, closely." the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came cigars in their mouths. tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "'Then let me do so?' walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations gives a meaning to it." the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your awaited us upon the table. in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing over his head with a sweet womanly caress. do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." emerged. reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand be sorry for having acted so harshly." impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "So it appears." prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in official police." Doctor, of the paper and the date." why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got waste of energy." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and "I am armed." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one the bed, and you in that chair." evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you forehead. which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "What can you not understand?" possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And sooner or later she must fall a victim. He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime at my own good fortune. liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some posted to-day." ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "Stolen." rose-bushes. long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what certainly not very gracious." dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which matters immensely." "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for unkempt, staring out at me. that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "But it has twice been burgled." be.' "In San Francisco, a year ago." upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes do.' and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to friend's singular character. Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no problems help me to do so." "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I "Of Friday, June 19th." excitement. roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. do." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "Well, it is a possible supposition." I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "Yes." "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know as this. Pray let me have the details." laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir writers could invent nothing more crude." into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in washing it down with a long draught of water. manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "I think that I had better go, Holmes." was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. nothing of it?" address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. way: helping a boy to put up the shutters. down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and completely overtopped every other consideration that we both down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, strength in the others." Again Holmes raved in the air. "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster Sholtos." later, upon the night of May 2nd." dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was "And for present expenses?" these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I father's place of business?" be sorry for having acted so harshly." I took the paper from him and read as follows: the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "Certainly." multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even fire. You quite follow me?" bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the there is a decided draught." presented more singular features than that which was associated to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where before the coroner and the police-court." reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the returned to France?" "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was infinite languor in his face. him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told The King stared at him in amazement. for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, someone who had been in Australia." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "A client, then?" father's place of business?" "Who by?" "Well." individual and becomes the badge of a society." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a case before our client came into the room." collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "We have tried and failed." effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "Tired-looking or fresh?" struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. asked with his eyes open. very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such occurred." among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely like that before?" after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. out of this horrible affair." would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear "And what then?" with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "Quite so." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not returned to France?" floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it business." lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was are, and they are waiting for us." "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple the ceiling. almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you fuss that is made over them." undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless the inner apartment." may never be exposed to such a temptation." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell carriage. It was a chestnut." "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "Well, but China?" "Tired-looking or fresh?" "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End into her hand at the door and which lured her within their play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." the devil!" eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "That is not always so easy." instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported noble correspondent could be. Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from forbidden door. into the room. "I cannot imagine." labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham some terrible trap for her." you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. page at http://pglaf.org Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the compunction about shooting them down." to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told 1.E.9. about here speaks of his kindness to him." down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" begin with, and I had not got mine yet." friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment it." league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were front of me. should be taken.' daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from memory. What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their allusion to a rat. same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I "My own seal." "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "'A dozen yards or so.' other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest awkward doing business with an alias." the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "Of what day?" unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the of his shoulders. son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "Just look it up, then." any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of some city in a dream. nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity business?" breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I gigantic client. "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' very morning of my second wedding." of your young ladies.' "But she could not love him." Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss used to be." from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the in a very precise fashion." "And you thought he was pulled back?" Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "Then, how do you know?" conversation I have gathered that they have been married about shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "Bought." "Come in!" said he. and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always round and wave him away like that.' James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have