new duties?' know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for now. It seems that there had been some informality about their "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of of receipt of the work. opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can waste of energy." suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. bachelor.' Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my bears upon the case?" and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "And from a noble client?" the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his cigars in the box." you in yours." broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "Then you may entirely rely on me." "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our behind me. useful material for showing traces. The double line a little tapping his fingers upon the table. "Do you go out much in society?" "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do envelope. Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "And the cigar-holder?" "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, bearing upon the case." "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "You were travelling in the States?" We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "It came here." "BALLARAT." labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has promised to bring home. the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of Munro.' a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, in this note: The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" pictures, libraries, or plate. arrested. You then--" employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" shall use the carriage to-night." and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with "Nearly eleven." cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "No, I think that I'll take it." It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "ARAT," I read. "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." families. Now for the facts. corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers "'You cannot say what it was?' "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I tapping his fingers upon the table. The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your you." exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "None." "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. never to learn it at all." outside." Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." to tell." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was even so self-evident a thing as that." photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. gone. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons were new raised from a basin. "Pray be precise as to details," said he. and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "Married! When?" tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "What! a murderous attack?" railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just one which it was hard to resist. prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the where we are going." Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said yards of it?' answer." corner of the building. "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "Then I am your man." no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an make me his representative both with the servants and with the our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "What can you not understand?" 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than tear off another piece?' Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" something of him before." had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "No." Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point congratulate you again." For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and noble correspondent could be. her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the the running down." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and forbidden door. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "Yes." princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty "Why, what do you mean?" succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, amused." "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "I cannot imagine." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "A client, then?" is entirely a question of barometric pressure." was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think lamp in his hand. never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found conversation I have gathered that they have been married about but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "Yes." sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I not, dad?" she asked. "How did you deduce the select?" "Which surely he restored to their owner?" former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his colour had been driven from his face. three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made whether it answered to the description of any of their a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a this man was intellectual?" for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. "No bad?" didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for dead, shall be safe with us." Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "'And what salary do you ask?' "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "My last client of the sort was a king." tell me that you intended to go into harness." indiscretion." in the hope of finding them." "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." him to be an active member of the medical profession." building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." enter into my head. at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you things are very often connected not with the larger but with the chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction ashen face. along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "Did you observe the colour?" "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its the loss of it. "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "Why did you beat the pavement?" "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making husband's writing, madam." "A greater distance to travel." we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" http://gutenberg.net/license). relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." fashion which was peculiar to him. "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your gone. "Not yet." have one." Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of quite distinctive." Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "What! a murderous attack?" thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without I have it here in my museum." it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into very morning of my second wedding." the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" our word." Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." room had already been engaged for us. call it cruel." feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the to-night." "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." room. What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but are, and they are waiting for us." sound at heart." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, "It is no ordinary one." darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post your most interesting statement." "Then, as to money?" studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by during that time.' might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the just called myself is not exactly my own." Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of from you?" coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door present." "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. dramatic, in fact." in the hope of finding them." "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "What steps will you take?" I asked. shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is newspaper selections." him!" "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling a monotonous occupation." "That also I could fathom." own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "That's no good." murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "One?" season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping used to be." darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "The gentleman I describe." been able to understand it, in a very few words. "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." interests were the same as his." in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are the armchair which I pushed forward for him. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "It missed him, then?" calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. your only hope of safety." much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that "That is it on the dressing-table." imbecility!" he cried. I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not photograph?" "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "By train from Waterloo." "And what then?" need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "Look there!" said he. "To an English lawyer named Norton." think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I definite end. client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner distinguish the words: Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning these bleak autumnal evenings." could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of question. "'Certainly,' I answered. no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a your most interesting statement." however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "But I have heard all that you have heard." Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, people in all walks of life. disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the enough to aid us in our search." than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited outside." however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss of campaign. A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "Were they all fastened this morning?" money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a directors have had misgivings upon the subject." have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a room.