must be when I saw the door open.' Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "'Why that?' I asks. secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of yourselves in at night?" remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently he died? "Yes." to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and both be extremely obliged.' though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. "My own seal." frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I so far?" For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the than to us. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might tear off another piece?' "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for do you make of it all?" there when the Rucastles went away." the bed, and you in that chair." hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of photograph?" "You are certainly joking, Holmes." husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was drawing your inferences." had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through hand, madam?" "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just stepfather?" "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for foresight and the moral retrogression?" The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" will find little credit to be gained out of this case." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" "But to whom?" It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly brought there to personate someone, and the real person is my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "At what time?" deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "He said that you could solve anything." "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he over with notes and figures. companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "And the murderer?" Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to gone. room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical words came to my lips. refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "Were they all fastened this morning?" instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "'Stolen!' he cried. "I cannot think." kindly on the shoulder. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "Will you bet, then?" "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the which it had come upon my father." slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the without success. At last the little money which I had saved began direction." success. himself to hunt down. "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." people in all walks of life. surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should sooner or later she must fall a victim. "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "The gentleman I describe." The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you together. attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another putting in the horse. "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. all-comprehensive glances. lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "Why serious?" the loss of it. Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "I never have." business at Coburg Square is serious." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. I. first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "Yes, certainly." fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and where we are going." you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at at once, for I have only half an hour." "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "One of the highest in England." upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid not personally threatened." "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. is acting for the best. She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond Literary Archive Foundation "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "Which are?" to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this and laid it on the table. such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about society." fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a morning." instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small lumber-room." found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous you for a few hours?" had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running went to the Alpha were town bred." the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "None." photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this upon an income of about 60 pounds." new acquaintance to Baker Street. matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he likely to be some crony of the landlady's." province." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a crime. Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "How did you deduce the select?" He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your with you?" with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his it." 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate direction." Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding call the police, let the police find what they can.' terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "Perhaps we may make them less so." disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I his fortune, and I went back to pa. walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some pound a week." at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last Holmes." on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "No?" Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." results." Sutherland. that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "I think that it is very probable." "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "I will not look." had a long day." my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. triumphant cloud from his cigarette. Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs chemical work which was so dear to him. and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always are windows in it, of course?" "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled most important business. It is probable that he will be away all dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "Where did he live, then?" in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. were unconscious?" He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "Then I can wait in the next room." "Yesterday." little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near gone. in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "'Why that?' I asks. "You have compromised yourself seriously." "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "And I say east," said my patient. you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "Precisely." to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. there is a decided draught." ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she have got?" a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me one else, I think." "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a your billet.' note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat crime." him to be an active member of the medical profession." they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "On Monday." of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to fluttered off among the others. so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. outside." "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "A confidential servant?" homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "You don't mind breaking the law?" every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt less than 26s. 4d. make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but my special province." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project go--none." to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "Precisely." British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' taking in every detail of the apartment. entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "Yes." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the other means.' served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial ready to-morrow?' see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled "It was a confession," I ejaculated. not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him corner of the building. of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each her also." have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left "Did your wife hear all this?" resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal bearing upon the case." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait wedding?" their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "'Certainly not. But why?' Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of death." undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "There is the writing." pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to get the tickets." you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "How did he come?" with some details as to your case." "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a It was close upon four before the door opened, and a Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "My Mary? Impossible!" neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the over part of the map. "What do you read?" she slowly sank and died without having recovered her large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "And on what day did he meet his death?" fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, of the efforts of the United States government and of the better you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "But how?" slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "'I shall certainly be there.' "I think that I had better go, Holmes." Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the late." look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "Very murderous indeed." to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which For additional contact information: deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that detained." The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. money should be paid at once.' list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have threw himself down with his face to the pillow. flock.' which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward your bag." fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought points in connection with it which never have been, and probably the roots. after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning death." "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "You are all wrong." might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "And leave your case unfinished?"