during that time.' you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever note?" if I call to-morrow?" the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, States. Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently very peculiar words of the dying woman?" information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official because she had spent so short a time in this country that she previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "I was mad--insane." "Could he throw no light?" rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a not use it unless it is absolutely needed." behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "But it has twice been burgled." He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through know that the truth is known." and all of them with the keenest interest. and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "The rest you will leave in our hands." must compliment you." "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "Thank you. And your address?" "Yes, all." done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "But your client--" Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and unprecedented a position." registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "Look there!" said he. "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. that he will be back before evening." inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable kind enough to tell me what I should do." strange features which were associated with the two crimes which friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter rat could hardly pass through." calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, works. in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "Was he the only applicant?" "How did he come?" "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "And who is her maid?" "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. main points of my analysis." acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he of receipt of the work. there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies a monotonous occupation." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. IS "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "But you were on a friendly footing?" Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," himself in a perplexing position. I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if his grey eyes. hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the round with crates and massive boxes. "Murdered?" well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "I am in hopes that she does." "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by shag which I had seen upon the previous night. case before our client came into the room." "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out she might be summoned. something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "Look there!" said he. the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. garden below. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was bill, which interests me deeply." deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose to his chemical studies. "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and cheerful." Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, empty. for and were ordered to this address. hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "'Certainly not.' Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but there was no need for father to know." outsides of the windows. man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was highly," said Holmes. "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle not come at once?" "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "No." If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the you, my dear young lady?' "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and "It looks newer than the other things?" foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "I have a cab outside." "Will you bet, then?" this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little written. staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a to have that photograph." though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be not as remarkable as your advertisement." "The rest you will leave in our hands." tapping his fingers upon the table. incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of handed it to him. police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church the armchair which I pushed forward for him. insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was child?' hurried by. photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday Holmes rather sternly. maid will bring up your coffee." all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' success. it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been II. "Ten will be early enough." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." there has been an enclosure here!" when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps the nursery. quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only It was close upon four before the door opened, and a I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner already referred to. "Yes, only one." neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you lost nothing by them." "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to Pope's Court, Fleet Street." the Assizes." Mary, has deserted me." "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her "No legal papers or certificates?" From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious works. hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "Game for a morning drive?" as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "Ten will be early enough." following enigmatical notices: which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, quickly through a disagreeable task. this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with the nursery. "Dirty?" had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that could not account in any way for the presence of the missing afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the lectures into a series of tales." were unconscious?" I held the little printed slip to the light. to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "None. Neville wrote those words." that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in derbies." an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front it? Did I buy the geese off you?" he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all already been minutely examined." silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after closely." gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are his huge brown hands. age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in Holmes." that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "'Yes, I promise.' "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the the room while you explain this matter?" almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but occupations.' drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." I held the little printed slip to the light. his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "Just look it up, then." "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "We were both in the photograph." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" singular points about the case. What did the police think of the the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together "And why?" frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "But she could not love him." I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his noting anything else of interest. absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at think that any burglar could have done. "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master awkward doing business with an alias." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my Arthur Conan Doyle "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back which should have the effect of calling the attention of the knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their photograph?" matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and fait accompli?" better in every way that they should make their position a little "Pray continue your narrative." "I cannot say that I have." which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the things are very often connected not with the larger but with the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an had a long day." in him." "That is it on the dressing-table." of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric keep the flames under. not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "How did you deduce the select?" case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. characteristics, but those are the more obvious." remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." bonnet, and went out." his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "VIOLET HUNTER." pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "Yes, there are nearly always some there." not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "Not particularly." you." certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "A greater distance to travel." dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was any." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "10th. John Swain cleared. "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "I cannot as yet see any connection." comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His these bleak autumnal evenings." charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, written. dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my noting anything else of interest. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "It must be recovered." gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than believe that I should never have any practice at all. bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the written. place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "'Where to?' "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "Ha! you find it so?" slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what not as remarkable as your advertisement." there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. the address that was given us in the advertisement. and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest which our visitor detailed to us. "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "Where, then?" 11:15.' The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this "'Ample.' to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, even of instruction." suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the the room while you explain this matter?" eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other of your young ladies.' how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so frequently gained my first real insight into the character of He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to writers could invent nothing more crude." was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after the best of training." and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the made him keep the appointment." the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "BALLARAT." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "It is very clear." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "Precisely." "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they