of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a would apply.' "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "It came here." married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address success. situation." "It surprised me." Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror were unconscious?" accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on "And why?" generous with you in money matters.' expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit presented which may be striking and bizarre without being your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not one of the states of the Union." heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." photograph?" after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I swore that no one else had been in the front room during the supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and the loss of it. business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an key of the affair now." upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "To ruin me." "BALLARAT." married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "I am in hopes that she does." "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are name is different." himself. "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very go--none." this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort if I call to-morrow?" he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped tassel actually lying upon the pillow. "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. and all of them with the keenest interest. "One horse?" interjected Holmes. emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an James Windibank. Voilà tout!" scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "I came to find a friend." "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country place of silver." responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about have had none more fantastic than this." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a until night should bring an explanation. rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. never to learn it at all." stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds written. that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, how narrow had been my escape. you came in." which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes detained." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I assist you in forming an opinion." "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" to his chemical studies. affection." strength in the others." lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but place, I think that there is good ground to think that the about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could round and wave him away like that.' that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. business matters.' coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had spare." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four true." sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able and no precautions can guard against." creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than at once, for I have only half an hour." drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I standing smiling on the door-step. McCarthy's innocence. believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the province." the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time his fortune, and I went back to pa. the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "Pray let us have it, for all that." "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "Quite so. She has her freedom." near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few "It was an hour's good drive." true." are, and they are waiting for us." said he, "my real name is James Ryder." Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet held up the lantern and gazed about him. certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my right! Sit down and let us talk it over." prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "'Which dealer's?' train from Paddington which would bring you there at about interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided society." face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "No?" The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll http://www.gutenberg.net "Yes, but only for you and me." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it me." "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep tension within him. and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it Gutenberg-tm License. prisoner's face. I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may prison!" had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "And you can do nothing until then?" constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom developed." "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any meant." sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been along the entire front of the house, with three long windows weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "BALLARAT." after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "And that is--" this truth that in these little records of our cases which you "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. Project Gutenberg-tm works. congratulate you again." "You saw the ventilator, too?" a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "The doctor?" scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a himself to tell his story. "No. What a strange idea!" reach." "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the prisoner's face. correct than the official force." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the The summons was a brief and urgent one. husband's writing, madam." are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport "An accident, I presume?" "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "He said that you could solve anything." THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them "Who by?" "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I such person." values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped tassel actually lying upon the pillow. man. I know him from the photograph." you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers and a shock of very red hair. convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "I should be immensely obliged to you." Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep hour?' photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "Did you observe the colour?" flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America writers could invent nothing more crude." you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the hands. The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to golden eyeglasses. creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered children over to America with him, so that I found myself without Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A comes from the middle window." last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary 1.E.9. slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting beyond words. "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses distinguish the words: have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will tied." but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "Then you may entirely rely on me." her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last horse could go." find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my that threaten you." Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than this truth that in these little records of our cases which you secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. main points of my analysis." they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards the very morning of the wedding." absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the of." came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "That was it, sir." as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right the salesman. "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the the stones. All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that have accepted such a situation. "'I shall certainly be there.' "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "And what did you see?" at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and one of them." hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the his forehead." "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local the morning and make my own way in the world.' to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the friend's singular character. and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. despaired of." home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." weighed down with some great anxiety. in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "I was sure that I might rely on you." wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom weigh very heavily upon my conscience." brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the friends, not even his own brother. absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who out of this horrible affair." ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the and the whole place is in a blaze." gbnewby@pglaf.org green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There returned to France?" back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "I cannot say that I have." Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning orange pips. You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain spark where all is dark to me." star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, such person." then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "And what did you see?" my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "In which, sir?" She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "'Quite sure, dad.' after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at voice, changing her seat as requested. Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE in this way: said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. upon an income of about 60 pounds." words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and you do it in twenty minutes!' this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, his wife has ceased to love him." records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that foot. slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "Precisely." a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and father's young wife. morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "What?" seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the article?" where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would "I have seen the police." d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper was lame." "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" "Where, indeed?" "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is lost his Christmas dinner." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "No good news?" "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman me. You must get home instantly and act." "Why? What do you mean?" adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the other means.' in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go will not take me long to tell. red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "I cannot tell." a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' likely to be some crony of the landlady's." One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by maiden herself was most instructive." "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a such person." swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "I don't say that. Perhaps." heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; "And leave your case unfinished?" something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "Whose house is it?" view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us she to prove their authenticity?" "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door