here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "Precisely." he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the the driver. "Indeed! Whose, then?" the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "Yes." you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then the Red-headed League." "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. "Ah!" "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "Was your sister dressed?" "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the villagers almost as much as their master. morning." "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, Holmes' face clouded over. "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, union?" "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, go--none." Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And matter." this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may voice, changing her seat as requested. here and I will read it to you: all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the investigation." battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, Miss Holder?" do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "Two days later this same performance was gone through under I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we shaken than I had ever seen him. absorbing." from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so of note-paper. It read in this fashion: which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, nights." it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might back into the street. to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest is worth.' burst into a hearty fit of laughter. believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that if I call to-morrow?" out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "It must be recovered." during which he might have communicated with his friend the "But I am all in the dark." for and were ordered to this address. Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "You'll never persuade me to believe that." hand, madam?" or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you wall." WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in back into the street. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became I nodded to show that I had heard. grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few suspect him." humiliation." discontent upon his features. "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his geese which you supplied to the Alpha." association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the me have 200 pounds?' between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "Perhaps I have." from the brougham. phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag *** START: FULL LICENSE *** few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a which we had just quitted. daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there charged with?" hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been go from here to the Strand." manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is derbies." and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "And how did he make his money?" "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at nice household for a young lady." remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. point in the dark hollow of his hand. which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt simple cases which are so extremely difficult." doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." people don't know." "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her in. in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little leave you to your papers for a little." "Indeed! Whose, then?" caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his interests were the same as his." narrative." the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush relief. which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the eavesdroppers?' work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. breakfast?" society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a go from here to the Strand." that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident straighten it?" The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and delirious. I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall my special province." do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "And is that all?" have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife I nodded to show that I had heard. very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I salesman. Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is the so-precious time, but come!' furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way writers could invent nothing more crude." "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. "What then?" "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. room had already been engaged for us. The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a at my own good fortune. tightly behind him. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "You horrify me." "Yes, that is the Crown." doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do the salesman. It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his lamp in his hand. Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "You think that he is dead?" Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had unprofitable." "What!" he roared. "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not existence." concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an been deceived." that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" them?" "'What do you call purely nominal?' companion imperturbably. answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "Yes." robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At if only as a check to my own memory." King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in here." too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for License. You must require such a user to return or 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest very peculiar words of the dying woman?" daring than any effort of the imagination." frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "'In my own bureau.' At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," "Why did you beat the pavement?" went to the Alpha were town bred." For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some breakfast." slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of fled together." it with his own hands." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to call you and give you the chance." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of better grown goose." o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. only touch the interest." take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "Why, what do you mean?" would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man outside. to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party "Indeed! Whose, then?" nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "Very. But will he see it?" We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and when your master had gone out." a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle himself in a perplexing position. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and have not had my rubber." daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which dead, shall be safe with us." desk. assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's Lee, in the county of Kent." "My dear Holmes!" "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our a monotonous occupation." "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." were new raised from a basin. north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in perplexity from it to my illustrious client. room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic confronted him. pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock details." "Pray be precise as to details," said he. line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to there were so many in the whole country as were brought together of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the "What have you to say now?" "Not in a good cause." morning." It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. bears upon the case?" of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my handed it to him. of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it envelope. out." propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and companion quietly. without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down this poor creature." "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "If so, much may have happened between." ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' so far?" little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "I answered that I had not. "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." door?" if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "By no means." which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "It certainly sounds feasible." considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, house for five minutes.' male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot one which it was hard to resist. these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that distinguish the words: Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, time." 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility be. wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few despair." "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through recover the gem." extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "'Certainly not. But why?' one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most undoubtedly my uncle's." All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." to surprise her." "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." my room." certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a were wasted." Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the was used.' "His face fell immediately. "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us matter over." Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who