"'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. felt the room to be a little close.' making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to "Yes, it would be as well." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "Will you go?" "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down me have 200 pounds?' overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "What office?" for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you vault. words came to my lips. as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is skylight. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the Leadenhall Street--and--" even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders eat it." ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "Dark enough and sinister enough." reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "BALLARAT." smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and said he at last. ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his detective. I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "It certainly sounds feasible." a little more before I quite committed myself. suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own Lestrade of Scotland Yard." common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "Well, but China?" received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until of." "About a month then." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "Just look it up, then." "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy shoulder; "he's all right." Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's in the port of London." upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery round and wave him away like that.' whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "And I to find an enemy." be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some the side-table." works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I "Come in!" said he. his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "He said too much." "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian Lee, in the county of Kent." But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "Have you it here?" promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, bedroom door." for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a it." get her out of the way." street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the which are rolled in Rotterdam." cigars in their mouths. tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite official police." http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ wife's character?" "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "I am sure." putting in the horse. strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a over with notes and figures. and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "He said too much." if I call to-morrow?" It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "'Yes, sir.' we went to search for him, face downward in a little politicians who had been sent down from the North. have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "Quite so." "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger has little to do with my story." destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been seven miles from Eyford Station.' money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and it were putty." "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with jewels which you have stolen?' that before taking the final step I should like to submit the the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my whole matter to your consideration." "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the tell me that you intended to go into harness." back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it do.' beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in see me here to avoid scandal." got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is to me. "No bad?" understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to rat could hardly pass through." "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to written. we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a appeal." continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "Then he might have called to you?" will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to on in his house." "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so of a light. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a bed dies. Does not that strike you?" yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship the driver. "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "If so, much may have happened between." and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a locked." particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "And what then?" about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a him and tried to hold him back. and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" "But who is he?" for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his situation." away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "It is very clear." "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, is a common subject for conversation. look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and better in every way that they should make their position a little "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There several quiet little villages up there." "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in strong and stiff." the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "She walked into the breakfast-room." "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon IS months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there which our visitor detailed to us. perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" to surprise her." it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "I don't say that. Perhaps." itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying the bottom.' its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "Where is it, then?" secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord "On the contrary, this is the right side." these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself down from London to inquire more deeply into it." client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the asked with his eyes open. near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a drove away. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that assist you in forming an opinion." while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought introspective fashion. than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as promised to bring home. of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "And when will you call?" after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here events than those which have happened in my own family." King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "We were both in the photograph." "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "Texas, I think." clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' "Not in the least." wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the in the dead of the night?' "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather him to be an active member of the medical profession." ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about directors, with the result that you have seen." over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "That is it on the dressing-table." "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has together. slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see always that they were such commands as a lady might with "'Stolen!' he cried. lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of friends, not even his own brother. "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "Dr. Becher's." "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary case before our client came into the room." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the Watson," he said cordially. my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. brandy and water within his reach. "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon wanted for ourselves." is a common subject for conversation. "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "I think it very unlikely." home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it The King stared at him in amazement. "Where to?" look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "This concluded the examination of the witness." "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. wife's character?" But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "An accident, I presume?" name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between stepfather?" Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady Again Holmes raved in the air. "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, characteristics, but those are the more obvious." the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "It is possible." were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "You will not go there first?" Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he plantation.' purpose equally well?" unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary pity, because in other respects you would really have done very real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you more terrible than the truth. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which Pope's Court, Fleet Street." right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a night.' said he. permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their appointment with me for six o'clock?" at once, for I have only half an hour." "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "'In my own bureau.' Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "I think that it is very probable." "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "It is possible." house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "From his hat?" disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" me where it went to?" have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new appeal." know what is wrong with it.' drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks