They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has undoubtedly my uncle's." make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "It goes to the housekeeper's room." lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason you found me to-night--and running through the front room she applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "ARAT," I read. deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while the coronet in his hands?" He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated burst out into a roar of laughter. hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a burst out into a roar of laughter. saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that "'Yes, it was gone.' Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the had this final quarrel? "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular works. bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with my friend's incisive reasoning. stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of bonnet, and went out." months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "I don't say that. Perhaps." asked. business?" princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "I know where it is." left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "What is it, then--a fire?" itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been least a most suspicious remark." near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of behind me. of the one which your family is now devouring." I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid returning from some small jollification and was making his way enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "Ample." squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the hand, madam?" prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it once more. "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; congenial hunt. little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman had a long day." used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in villagers almost as much as their master. Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "Precisely so. But how--" to arrive at through this?" "No, I had a dozen." "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. despair." hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates key turn in the lock." foresight and the moral retrogression?" the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have an introduction to him?" "I say that I have solved it." "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "I know where it is." "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' it." impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "The King of Scandinavia." "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "How did you deduce the select?" "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "Yesterday." although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not you do it in twenty minutes!' broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "What then?" disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may was shining brightly. relation between them, and what the object of his repeated details." "I was afraid that you were engaged." I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "By no means." aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "The knees of his trousers." out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "Was she in good spirits?" "You don't mind breaking the law?" will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "I warn you that they are very incomplete." neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the quick march!" be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "Yes, only one." even so self-evident a thing as that." "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "We were both in the photograph." the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, returned to France?" lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." copied or distributed: central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, companion imperturbably. latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the made his money." lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "Well, but China?" husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "It is a murder, then?" "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "That you are never beaten." thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, forecastle of an emigrant ship. affair. sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the girl said." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "'Yes, it was gone.' say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "'What then?' I asked. most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I cigars in their mouths. "'And the work?' away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is Munro.' applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "'And what are they worth?' I asked. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in been lifted and conveyed somewhere." to you." would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her attention." If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the it with his own hands." from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white impression behind it as though a window had gently closed whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham just ask you whether you had heard it.' I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "None." "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the best detective that ever lived. Sholtos." are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "Not in a good cause." "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "Stolen, then." Literary Archive Foundation have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another *** START: FULL LICENSE *** over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on you understand?" several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of absorbing." "I will, Miss Turner." same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "Well?" shall not find me ungrateful." him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of information in his hands the value of which he did not himself usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had cheerful." be sorry for having acted so harshly." "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "'In my own bureau.' upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the despaired of." the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in "I am to be neutral?" experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had taking in every detail of the apartment. was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself during that time.' "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "You have carte blanche." "No. His orders were to stay in the house." member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "Thank you. And your address?" a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right Pope's Court, Fleet Street." "'A dozen yards or so.' lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by had died away into the silence from which it rose. pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a deduce something from that?" British peeress.'" of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to But Holmes shook his head gravely. "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to has little to do with my story." "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "I was afraid that you were engaged." "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on gbnewby@pglaf.org "I cannot imagine." Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "Pray tell us what has happened to you." walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "'How far from the body?' one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "Certainly." "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "Quite so." which was all perfectly true. Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his cost them two and thirty pounds." beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, of fine shops and stately business premises that they really but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on "ARAT," I read. the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "And how did you verify them?" great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "I warn you that they are very incomplete." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe "And how have you succeeded?" "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean of campaign. presented more singular features than that which was associated works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into take the flies, but not before." the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, arrangements." that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place Holmes' face clouded over. "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I his grey eyes. "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. row." "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before most important business. It is probable that he will be away all bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very speckled band?" such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with her also." black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." all that?" this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little You want to know what became of those geese?" "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards breakfast and whispered something to her husband. He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has did not hear it also.' explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "'Where to?' "'Certainly,' I answered. conceal it?" Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may which should have the effect of calling the attention of the then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "But the mystery?" Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "I should wish to." may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "'Certainly not.' "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than