convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a lamp. Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "I will try. What is it?" will be renamed. house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to of campaign. very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no least a most suspicious remark." "I am armed." no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "But she will refuse." at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking been with you?" Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned helping a boy to put up the shutters. must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell bill, which interests me deeply." A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which shall use the carriage to-night." down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his introspective fashion. We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock "No. His orders were to stay in the house." unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without delirious. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, question," said Holmes, smiling. again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine them present such singular features as the strange train of flock.' the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "Then you may be so with me." crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; My friend smiled. home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, weighed down with some great anxiety. possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great off." Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these thirty. all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon followed. the roots. be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had of." typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was forehead. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "But it has twice been burgled." were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "I fear not." more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because hands. the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "Pray let us have it, for all that." similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must purpose of examination. The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the garden below. besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "How many? I don't know." the inquest, and which are worth considering." 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "Will you go?" only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" to change my dress. "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but the room while you explain this matter?" and inquire as to the address." "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and not as remarkable as your advertisement." shag which I had seen upon the previous night. the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and out." Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning completely overtopped every other consideration that we both Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His appeal." me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front chance." "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you acquaintance?" "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich of receipt of the work. "That you are never beaten." hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was if only as a check to my own memory." "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I fled together." "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in where she found matters as described by the last witness. that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "Well?" suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon "ARAT," I read. above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her promised to bring home. "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he little adventures." we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a highroad, where all traces were lost. "Was he the only applicant?" at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I sound at heart." James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran it means?" Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to observed. sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never there." and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no upon a handsome competence. more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of against a man in the prime of life?" "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put national property. I was determined that the law should have its his face. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "And the cigar-holder?" gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. once more on the important position which you have been fortunate quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that orange pips. hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached ceremony." likely to be some crony of the landlady's." brought there to personate someone, and the real person is charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. danger is over." But Holmes shook his head gravely. sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of Miss Holder?" the date of his supposed suicide." overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to not as remarkable as your advertisement." "She showed me, as I told you she would." importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault Have you good authority for what you say?" round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe too. "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the three fields round his house, and there he would take his knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an The summons was a brief and urgent one. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "But she will refuse." of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." everything which you would wish to know." a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "'You cannot say what it was?' in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. guilty one." with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two row." your bag." "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I my secret was safe in his possession. asked with his eyes open. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker back to my heart. fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an "Yes." lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave your own bird, so if you wish--" for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower to me. course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a may never be exposed to such a temptation." stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some beyond words. face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" Farm upon the left." difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm Lestrade of Scotland Yard." certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my seven miles from Eyford Station.' have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "Yes, all." their singular warning or token before them when starting upon puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" "'How far from the body?' had a long day." from you?" similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to relief. is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "By no means." "Which are?" "One of the highest in England." "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there than to us. "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "Yes, that is the Crown." into her hand at the door and which lured her within their noise which awoke you from your sleep?" Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned strength." seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or his face. wedding?" the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "Then I shall certainly come." from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this eavesdroppers?' "What steps will you take?" I asked. "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who felt the room to be a little close.' until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was constraint." been with you?" face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with fluttered off among the others. outside. "Upon what point?" bed dies. Does not that strike you?" for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "It goes to the housekeeper's room." parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you acted in my house last night?" They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman "'About the same.' the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building you do it in twenty minutes!' to-night?' agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a crime. weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH intimate personal affairs in this public manner." safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "What then?" 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "It surprised me." "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "Yes, the wine-cellar." "That is it on the dressing-table." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "Yes, they were peculiar boots." return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "Very. But will he see it?" "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the bird of prey. with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such annoyance, but no jest. refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open ready to-morrow?' at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for delirious. you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always at my remark. spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. read over the extraordinary announcement. lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, bears upon the case?" paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. very old mansion. time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle fish-monger and a tide-waiter." settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "No, I am descending." "Never." "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of have had none more fantastic than this." of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered as yours." a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we all-comprehensive glances. stalked out of the room. "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "What can it mean?" I gasped. "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and gone.