collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where completely overtopped every other consideration that we both multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who to you." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "My last client of the sort was a king." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. Munro.' Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent to-morrow." stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." again before evening." "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "Absolutely none." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until of this gang." letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one all that?" and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until "Not in the least." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my Holmes' thin, eager face. the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of into the bag, and made for the door. daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "The Cedars?" mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with careless servant girl?" "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "Very truly yours, the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "It is no ordinary one." "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the ran thus: trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they Eyford." hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you row." body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in said he, "my real name is James Ryder." a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My For additional contact information: Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. a good hundred miles off by now." "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid conclusions. a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, pictures, libraries, or plate. "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a clanging. Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "My dear Holmes!" his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their was a lad." one which it was hard to resist. some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' gone before you can get him to hospital." though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and mysterious end." her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain before the coroner and the police-court." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque "'Yes, I promise.' "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, wedding?" should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of likely to be some crony of the landlady's." was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his and files of the old papers, following the future career of every ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the his cane at the bell-pull. "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face was already answered. it." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "It is half-past ten now." "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "Not particularly." walking." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "You saw the ventilator, too?" this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "Did you become engaged then?" "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to before, for it was considerably after midnight. in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am at a side door. similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "Really! You surprise me." his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat so far?" these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "To an end?" Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "Was he the only applicant?" "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my and effective." word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done once more on the important position which you have been fortunate that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that entirely lost his self-respect." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a opened the door, and slipped through. "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, "By no means." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a to miss it." resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to woman who has had her own way to make in the world. his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to "Yes, that is the Crown." rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of deduce something from that?" reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was leave you to your papers for a little." station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." this man was intellectual?" when you have done it." "What then?" he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The direction." though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the made his money." clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "So I heard. You have him here?" and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the floor. grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming third from London." Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were "'Most admirably.' last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. Dr. Gregory B. Newby just called myself is not exactly my own." "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "ARAT," I read. "But you have hopes?" having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm wedding?" entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "I have seen the police." corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "'And what are they worth?' I asked. what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the some terrible trap for her." "So I have heard." he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions an introduction to him?" until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him "But the mystery?" the room while you explain this matter?" clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "What do you make of that, Watson?" the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "An accident, I presume?" Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive there!' before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "No." neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' presented which may be striking and bizarre without being suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." I leave." acted in my house last night?" "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened place of silver." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "Stolen, then." my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he to that open window." their singular warning or token before them when starting upon "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the believe that I should never have any practice at all. His smile broadened. "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "You have it, sir, just as it happened." to Leatherhead. three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right written. helping a boy to put up the shutters. For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? will be renamed. obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, it right.' subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. pressing in one house as in another. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which trifles." not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him 'please.'" to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a I held the little printed slip to the light. scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun ready to-morrow?' "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time sufficient punishment." drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "Witness: It was. breakfast and whispered something to her husband. little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of "I promise," said Holmes. has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, "My opinion is in no way altered." distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "And you thought he was pulled back?" "Yes, at the mines." "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. horse could go." suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must during that time.' forebodings. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior waste of energy." but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal your equipment. fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but "Only as much as we can deduce." "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was "I will do it." "Which surely he restored to their owner?" over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "The Cedars?" surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him then?" sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "9th. McCauley cleared. Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "Perfectly so." gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "It was." hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "But how did you gain them?" dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. fat-encircled eyes. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one the Red-headed League." his grey eyes. To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "The rest you will leave in our hands." that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell leave you to your papers for a little." spare." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "You know me, then?" Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "'Oh, no.' dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "Yes, it would be as well." Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are