"I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. to have that photograph." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned their singular warning or token before them when starting upon appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "'Entirely.' own family. "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to populous neighbourhood." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens opportunities to fix the problem. "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year everything which you would wish to know." to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "'Yes.' "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of these bleak autumnal evenings." reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in question," said Holmes, smiling. "It's nothing of the kind." "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those the one as in the other." I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the matters immensely." her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "I have a cab outside." be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "'And what are they worth?' I asked. goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by do you make of it all?" "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling "Holmes, the busybody!" child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that leaning back in his chair. bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that have had none more fantastic than this." "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, stalked out of the room. income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "How often?" ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "No." the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another such person." Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "Pray continue your narrative." ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "At half-wages, in fact." one's self under obligations.' agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "In which, sir?" for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be helping a boy to put up the shutters. smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "'Yes, sir.' was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "And leave your case unfinished?" The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for back to my heart. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "How on earth--" "Why serious?" "Then I shall certainly come." perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "Your sister is dead, then?" time." their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys to me. freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to better grown goose." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came congenial hunt. enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of considering the formidable letters which were received by himself our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been easy-going way." the one as in the other." the side-table." drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached occupations.' door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can stood on the top of it. look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." your troubles." shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "What have you done?" asked Holmes. I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. emerged. woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." house for five minutes.' in a friendly supper." "And why?" evidence," I remarked. he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these train.' Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the read it out to me." morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered problems help me to do so." though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and goes." had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an bachelor.' "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among nice household for a young lady." completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he you." are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." "Pray continue your narrative." answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, congenial hunt. have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her you." room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, for securing the situation." used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a that, and I came down." a very grave face. gone. his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "I promise," said Holmes. on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on "But of what society?" very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the Clair, of Lee." "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty his huge brown hands. They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw in. "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. that, and I came down." "Never to return." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "It was." "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "I don't believe it." exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "By no means." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo as he remarks, very much against the son." "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far which our visitor detailed to us. didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To to change my dress. about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her undoubtedly my uncle's." Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." the tragedy. that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the round and wave him away like that.' such person." "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. absolutely follow my advice in every respect." just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a His smile broadened. "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning go back?" like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror goes." multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the relation between them, and what the object of his repeated King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not that threaten you." more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and "Who was the criminal, then?" "I came to find a friend." should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled door?" minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." my little problems." come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "Do you go out much in society?" read it out to me." does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm how narrow had been my escape. never to learn it at all." "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly colonel looking down at me. "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." closely." "I have a cab outside." and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the are windows in it, of course?" four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "We must have a cab." the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "'A dozen yards or so.' "'Yes, it was gone.' way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in hand, madam?" and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, through." "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. "No." steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already behind me. the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "Certainly." conclusions. "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and passage and a tap at the door. product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front crime. and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project once more for Briony Lodge. to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, suspect him." spare." the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. astonishment. A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. arrested. You then--" Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I "Murdered?" Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a room. prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the "No?" residence of the great financier. for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who the stones. hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. "'I have heard so.' developed." been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see outbreak?" "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be some terrible trap for her." fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "No." glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as at once, for I have only half an hour." have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," me." correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a the stones. a room. specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my and glanced through. just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." might have a private word with us. Farm upon the left." The note was undated, and without either signature or address. to me. web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to get the tickets." rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that miles off. He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "It is to him that this trophy belongs." desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "Holmes, the busybody!" orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "What then?" open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal was keenly on my guard against him. "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five success. "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman face and glided from the room. "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the me where it went to?" "But what is it you wish?" cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was directors, with the result that you have seen." its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera to-night?' wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit you." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "A greater distance to travel." See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken "Did you observe the colour?" until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I it were putty." my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition pierced for earrings?" ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally and the colonel ushered me in. back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said "Then the page we have seen--" "And how have you succeeded?" "And how did he make his money?" article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." I have it here in my museum." beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the