office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and burst out into a roar of laughter. "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him woven round him. "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project your troubles." you want, then?' "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. wife's character?" I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, to take care of herself." depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the again, where I was soon asleep. adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it as noiselessly as she had come. 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which be there in time for your coming." should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the present strange and interesting features that it is no easy present." "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. because she had spent so short a time in this country that she your only hope of safety." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to back to my heart. case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land take the flies, but not before." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "The rest you will leave in our hands." against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who do you make of it all?" array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of delirious. might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's fat-encircled eyes. was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk this truth that in these little records of our cases which you Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." roused himself from his reverie. going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of the child." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way "That is easily got." Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "But what is it you wish?" himself to tell his story. abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away persecution?" do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the bell. Holmes whistled. "Do you know him?" hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "I see no marks." my little problems." "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. waste of energy." certainly not very gracious." of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "The best possible." "'I have already given you my word.' central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was someone who had been in Australia." before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "To the police?" with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been carried out of court." Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "What is it?" "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood is worth.' "How often?" seven miles from Eyford Station.' grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that remarked. my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at Watson," he said cordially. in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "Did he not advertise?" "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no became a certainty. again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial me where it went to?" thin, with a long, sharp nose?" you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too she might be summoned. Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "My photograph." conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would shadow pass over his face as I spoke. Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "Yes, it would be as well." "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "You don't mind breaking the law?" reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of death." my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police walking." first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for a very grave face. comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at read it out to me." and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "Can I be of assistance?" "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. carriage. It was a chestnut." town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "A call for help, you thought?" put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But meant." amused." object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in sound at heart." "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' nonsense.' such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "Look there!" said he. brought there to personate someone, and the real person is less than 26s. 4d. out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & like gravel from a pit.' carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What very morning of my second wedding." present." plantation.' "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "What shall I do?" shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. is worth.' grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. stepfather?" door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "Yes, at the mines." "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen The King stared at him in amazement. "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "Now, then, what's the last entry?" in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me was it brought him the coronet? "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in the stable lane now." "I cannot as yet see any connection." and have this put in the evening papers." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." friend's singular character. has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "And why?" anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "Stoke Moran?" said he. "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the was already answered. a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my served to weaken the effect. protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. lamp. round with crates and massive boxes. have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you "By all means." strength." opportunities to fix the problem. at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or the south-west, I see." agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all "Entirely." high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" ways of our fellow-men." gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I seven miles from Eyford Station.' upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "Yes, all." sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "10th. John Swain cleared. "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think secret." my special province." states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, that I may have something better before very many minutes are "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "It is solved." case-book, which he consulted. should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. "Witness: I must still refuse. 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. off." homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man Does that suggest anything?" opportunities to fix the problem. "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "One horse?" interjected Holmes. we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "I think that I had better go, Holmes." "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." said he at last. hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "Come in!" said Holmes. or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, from you?" say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "What of the rat, then?" "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "Yes." round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I God! What an exposure! What can I do?" Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "Was there a secret marriage?" acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no tell him that I know him to be innocent." and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be exactly what you advise." "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "Pray do so." a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything bore every mark of being an average commonplace British "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "And how did he make his money?" bonnet, and went out." his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "And for present expenses?" "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed as this. Pray let me have the details." "Pray do so." of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been My friend smiled. "How did you deduce the select?" signal between you and your father? safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which call the police, let the police find what they can.' to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "What office?" "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "'And the work?' "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with distance from the station, and there we found the young lady broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "But you can know nothing of this?" "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That get the tickets." impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was this remarkable episode. "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first six. Come in!" outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry Surrey." creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "It was." believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "You have it, sir, just as it happened." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody very morning of my second wedding." his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, newspaper selections." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you drove away. "But who is he?" with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us orange pips. age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their in the dead of the night?' every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and know all about it," he snarled. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "What shall I do?" from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my