crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. already been minutely examined." been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the whole matter to your consideration." old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "Never to return." Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who side. the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, villagers almost as much as their master. maid will bring up your coffee." to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the of receipt of the work. could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "And how have you succeeded?" at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers look dissatisfied." but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing woman." was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." Miss Holder?" this unhappy family?" "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the plantation.' twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the to affect your life." Count Von Kramm." have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "If I can be of use." admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I friend's singular character. morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a within hail.' "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for that I am arrested." "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, reach." compunction about shooting them down." "But his left-handedness." was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me daring than any effort of the imagination." suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, chill to my heart. read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "BALLARAT." should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else my room." 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and approach us with offers to donate. "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect done what I asked you, Jones?" of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to "'How far from the body?' lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, you give your casting vote to?" should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while evidence," I remarked. 'please.'" which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. to me. The events in question occurred in the early days of my going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "Seven!" I answered. it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "May I see it?" She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I individual and becomes the badge of a society." in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nothing with him." dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "You have compromised yourself seriously." swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of murdered man." "You have but to name it." coroner's jury." doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of their singular warning or token before them when starting upon the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in burst into a hearty fit of laughter. "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I back into the street. "And why?" "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the Dr. Gregory B. Newby "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, gone before you can get him to hospital." where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a question. statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: have accepted such a situation. the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little "Yes, certainly." "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "Was your sister dressed?" "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then the very letters. But what is this written above them?' dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing thirty. "Then you may entirely rely on me." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able just ask you whether you had heard it.' though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to outside. creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let strength of mind to control. exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "It is very clear." "Eh? What was that?" over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that business at Coburg Square is serious." his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch I. frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "No?" shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." signal between you and your father? "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked now. It seems that there had been some informality about their three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with over part of the map. "What do you read?" "And your mother is alive?" in this way: "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." swore that no one else had been in the front room during the seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "Quite so." "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have three fields round his house, and there he would take his to-night?' has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally information in his hands the value of which he did not himself settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. business at Coburg Square is serious." "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "Absolutely none." every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of "I cannot tell." company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and to-night?" I asked. your troubles." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows followed. "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My the inner apartment." been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but about. along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little again, where I was soon asleep. reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I unprecedented a position." adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it handed it to him. "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "The rest you will leave in our hands." the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered yet." "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "Game for a morning drive?" crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. said he. gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a he bowed and left the room without another word. interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "'Where to?' "No sign of it?" a little more before I quite committed myself. surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "Of what?" against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them Sutherland. approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away once more. first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked "Yes, sir." more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much have one." themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to question you as to those details which seem to me to be most were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "Not in the least." tension within him. this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in matter." the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "'Certainly not.' sit on the left-hand side of the driver." society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the once more on the important position which you have been fortunate town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the newspaper selections." "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "By all means." "Why? What do you mean?" business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "Then, how do you know?" said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I which was all perfectly true. the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "Stoke Moran?" said he. "Yes, only one." left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a considering the formidable letters which were received by himself Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "I say it is." in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, fait accompli?" am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect "I know where it is." "The Coroner: What do you mean? the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor "How long did she speak to this Alice?" "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; "'And the work?' broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight again on its way. not as remarkable as your advertisement." prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, to arrive at through this?" enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. mysterious business." "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out business?" together. strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. that there was nothing in it, after all." For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I weighed down with some great anxiety. "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, you." four million human beings all jostling each other within the about. the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "'Where could I find him?' Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp horse could go." the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the been anything against him. He had for years been known as a Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "An enemy?" death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the of it with the greatest attention. very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" the general public were present, then?" in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, "And when will you call?" "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that shadow pass over his face as I spoke. The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the