drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "I was mad--insane." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the ventilator." used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the digesting their breakfasts at home." "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "The doctor?" particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "I promise," said Holmes. rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "To the police?" chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's in his power. deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. character. contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and bearing upon the case." expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat works. See paragraph 1.E below. "In heaven's name, what for?" have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my coroner's jury." rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of and wait." and all of them with the keenest interest. but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed them present such singular features as the strange train of William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he the loss of it. so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the http://www.gutenberg.net for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work noise which awoke you from your sleep?" The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some he died? agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few rat could hardly pass through." cost them two and thirty pounds." family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in she to prove their authenticity?" the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "'And what are they worth?' I asked. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and "Can I be of assistance?" and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a me where it went to?" Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "'What are you doing there?' he asked. saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "And what did you learn from him?" interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a call you and give you the chance." you give your casting vote to?" the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "I will not look." blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "'Yes.' "My opinion is in no way altered." Have you good authority for what you say?" between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot had formerly been in part my own. before the coroner and the police-court." and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, now. It seems that there had been some informality about their was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, "Which are?" were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the business." writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." directly by questioning you." events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "I cannot say that I have." bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable be sorry for having acted so harshly." nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind been shamefully used." weapon." companion imperturbably. and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "At half-wages, in fact." hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder extraordinary contortions. Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place down. dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one the Friday. Was it to be in church?" occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As you for a few hours?" "Then I shall certainly come." "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my some city in a dream. Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both meant." in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, skylight. found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, name is different." London for the present?" "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "No bad?" "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, clanging. the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The "Murdered?" but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. Farm upon the left." scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more Heh?' this remarkable episode. however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his rat could hardly pass through." have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all "'You cannot say what it was?' were new raised from a basin. inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read definite end. during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the an introduction to him?" supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "They are typewritten," I remarked. step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the easy-going way." younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was presented more singular features than that which was associated "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "'What would be the hours?' I asked. floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush upon an income of about 60 pounds." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." to miss it." be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could photograph?" probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "This photograph!" "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the in your London, you will know that the office of the company is Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue the so-precious time, but come!' The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the had this final quarrel? a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the records." The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "I have hopes." dear old homesteads?" "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a if only as a check to my own memory." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "No. What a strange idea!" gone. "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into bell. Holmes whistled. of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, enter into my head. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural him to be an active member of the medical profession." grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass started for the Temple to see my husband. night.' said he. newspaper selections." I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the breakfast?" writers could invent nothing more crude." The King stared at him in amazement. scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily who was a member of your goose club." leaning back in his chair. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing certainly not very gracious." "Do you know him?" "That you are never beaten." I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! trying to your nerves." "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more begin with, and I had not got mine yet." side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by arrangements." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to know all about it," he snarled. a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. shall not find me ungrateful." whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the girl said." "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before guilty one." "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "That is possible." as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and tell him that I know him to be innocent." note?" he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "Here?" Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "I have hopes." annoyance, but no jest. "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple Sutherland?" light and attacked it." as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "'What do you call purely nominal?' whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." me, and I could not think that his explanation of the wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, promised to bring home. Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small habit of advancing money.' "I have my revolver," said I. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "You don't mind breaking the law?" horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" call for protection in the marriage market, for the present case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the detective. and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "I cannot say that I have." "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil carriage. It was a chestnut." some place of shelter and let the county police know what has lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey legal crime." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called did not hear it also.' of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "But you can know nothing of this?" agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some "It is no ordinary one." near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of "We must have a cab." think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." me." The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is meanly of me." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, ceremony." surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not notes," he said. "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "'Quite sure, dad.' even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit when your master had gone out." "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "Never." there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than in the port of London." the one as in the other." "But how could you guess what the motive was?" "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which carriage. It was a chestnut." "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you "Who by?" door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its The summons was a brief and urgent one. lumber-room." to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son entirely lost his self-respect." "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is was a loud and authoritative tap. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre of his shoulders. thirty. Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from "So it appears." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "By train from Waterloo." ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "But what will you do?" protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, brandy and water within his reach. which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he everything which you would wish to know." nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more some mystery and the punishment of some crime." course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be more solid." will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an the stable lane now." at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the strange features which were associated with the two crimes which aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest "Witness: It was. matter." way in." "Then I do not see the point." think that he is innocent?" gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small,