having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his affair. had a long day." "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope pierced for earrings?" much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." stood on the top of it. the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "I cannot imagine." could not account in any way for the presence of the missing thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "A thing like a cleaver," said he. Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very the coronet at all injured?" purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the unclasping of his long thin hands. "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "Eh? What was that?" secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the "I have solved it." possible that we could bring him back to her? "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "'It is locked up,' I answered. passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a out." Again Holmes raved in the air. knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their you want, then?' weapon." whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become are, I think, all that we need." them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent him." "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault my friend's incisive reasoning. man. I know him from the photograph." could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "Awake, Watson?" he asked. as noiselessly as she had come. it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's without a word or a look. least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "Her father is very rich?" enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "'Why that?' I asks. of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "I see no marks." particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "Then you may be so with me." bill, which interests me deeply." "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "About a month then." of your young ladies.' cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "'You cannot say what it was?' lectures into a series of tales." thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman hour." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and appeal." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of more solid." "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to fait accompli?" every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had rat could hardly pass through." lectures into a series of tales." get the tickets." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "Oh, the cause is excellent!" lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very may have an influence upon European history." violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical shaken than I had ever seen him. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they in one or two places in England?' We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had voice. together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "Then I do not see the point." ordinary clothes on?" "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the my secret was safe in his possession. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "No." "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." gone. side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very compunction about shooting them down." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by drawing your inferences." lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just points to suicide?" which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but was keenly on my guard against him. cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "'And what salary do you ask?' high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, learned something! Where are the gems?" "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were was a loud and authoritative tap. "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "What can you not understand?" listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I was a perfect sample of the class. "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife delighted to hear it," he said. a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "I am in hopes that she does." people don't know." and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either trifles." station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the to have been novel and of interest." "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you correct than the official force." on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he to a more successful conclusion." without a word or a look. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very delirious. "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy as he remarks, very much against the son." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "'Yes, it was gone.' "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "Oh, fresh and glossy." invisible to me," I remarked. "Yes, all." "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to there!' by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "I think it very unlikely." "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at of it with the greatest attention. towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "Yes?" and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What fluttered off among the others. was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out strong and stiff." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and him." that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. felt?" the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. and the whole place is in a blaze." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed I shall communicate with you." "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. you." headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled following enigmatical notices: happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." do you make of it all?" 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "Not him." "I have come for advice." Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of humiliation." as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous whereabouts. perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you voice. to have that photograph." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "No." inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus Foundation congratulate you again." are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with desk. free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider important." unclasping of his long thin hands. address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this and effective." "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a went to the Alpha were town bred." Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "That was it, sir." postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after thin, with a long, sharp nose?" swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "It is possible." your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "What have you done?" asked Holmes. Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered arrangements." he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed shadow pass over his face as I spoke. in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been "Thank you. And your address?" "I cannot tell." "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" made him keep the appointment." pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "And I to find an enemy." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, will he say when he returns?" know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "Very. But will he see it?" "Yes, but only for you and me." returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding questioning and rather startled gaze. were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "And what did you learn from him?" panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "Why did you pick him?" his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. what I may call a really hard day's work." "'I am sure that I do not know.' I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual place, I think that there is good ground to think that the a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "Very truly yours, nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with "May I see it?" providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your affair. that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and even of instruction." with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to signal between you and your father? Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off enter Dr. Roylott's room." that I can to serve you." "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" "Quite so. She has her freedom." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; where she found matters as described by the last witness. blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong head. So long, then!" seen the man in the road." "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with the dangers which encompass me." "I came to find a friend." "I cannot imagine." within hail.' danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom "Dark enough and sinister enough." following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. beg that you will break it off." "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "Certainly." than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few hair?' the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his that you saw all that I did." ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each the matter?" A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a the night.' "You have but to name it." Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of that threaten you." go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It delirious. where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good Eyford at 11:15.' "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and the morning and make my own way in the world.' "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an