any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." the coroner come to?" shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after never to learn it at all." of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers ordinary clothes on?" which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what http://gutenberg.net/license). end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then Leadenhall Street--and--" elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "Do you receive much company?" he asked. wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "You were travelling in the States?" initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed chance at all." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what companion quietly. "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him entirely devoid of interest." from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "I don't say that. Perhaps." papers must be those that are destroyed.' the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "Yes." "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the strength in the others." his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love the stones. It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't weighed down with some great anxiety. drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that writing, and yet I know it well." "Was she in good spirits?" our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My that I can to serve you." indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a against a man in the prime of life?" step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of posted to-day." building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. I took the paper from him and read as follows: "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones The summons was a brief and urgent one. immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might long narrative. very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his in the port of London." "Then I can wait in the next room." depend upon my doing so.' "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself McCarthy." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat closing the door. But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled promised to bring home. from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, The King stared at him in amazement. eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime an introduction to him?" LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely bare slabs of marble. at home. and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not to you." there!' know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "I was sure that I might rely on you." Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low the bed, and you in that chair." matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "Yes." accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He to arrive at through this?" one of them." 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with the one as in the other." goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black of Fenchurch Street." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "We must have a cab." Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a and capable of preserving a secret.' Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of "It surprised me." ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few quite distinctive." the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed held up the lantern and gazed about him. had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." before, for it was considerably after midnight. sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that not come at once?" premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She carpenter." you." They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary bell. Holmes whistled. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be only touch the interest." hour?' "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it thin, with a long, sharp nose?" believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. congenial hunt. "Oh, yes, easily." presented more singular features than that which was associated rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "And who is her maid?" It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little bell. Holmes whistled. last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall in one or two places in England?' like gravel from a pit.' her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was the Friday. Was it to be in church?" six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who "My dear Holmes!" only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I nothing of it?" that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from pound a week." in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that all that?" when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the carpenter." offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of other lovers by making love himself." utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by "No, distinctly professional." not use it unless it is absolutely needed." and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "None." "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative there is a decided draught." eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind I held the little printed slip to the light. nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my heavily into it. among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "I think it very unlikely." of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and "Which are?" "But how?" equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and sound at heart." his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "And your father? Did you tell him?" "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the just called myself is not exactly my own." should be so warm over such a trifle." much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in you." "And when will you call?" arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I depend upon my doing so.' "I think that I had better go, Holmes." There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, tear off another piece?' "One horse?" interjected Holmes. would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to fattened it expressly for you.' have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by writer." "Now, then, what's the last entry?" size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up gigantic client. plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at to surprise her." more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "What! a murderous attack?" for and were ordered to this address. a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly writer." myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. all-comprehensive glances. matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and dear old homesteads?" last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose through." "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. the one as in the other." loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "One of his hands." As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent instituted." course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just a few minutes he said that it would be all right. of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, excitement. "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the stones. male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "Entirely." "That is easily got." upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' place no limit on the sum I may draw." for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. reach." States. disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "I cannot tell." Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "Then what has happened to him?" boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may to miss it." corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, respectable self." delirious. Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "'Yes, sir.' held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that of fine shops and stately business premises that they really never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "There is the writing." His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from strong reason behind." this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. 'please.'" upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a the morning and make my own way in the world.' shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "'What, the red-headed man?' his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about ceremony." rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "Yes." and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four papers must be those that are destroyed.' go from here to the Strand." play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." "My opinion is in no way altered." given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "His face fell immediately. that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "If I can be of use." seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. she has been waylaid. There has been no result." importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "Two days later this same performance was gone through under don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent as he remarks, very much against the son." "An enemy?" it? Did I buy the geese off you?" seven miles from Eyford Station.' of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "Is he quiet?" that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set rooms." out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long upon the sideboard." our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my present." "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, companion. be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled stepfather?" take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. gone. Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side allusion to a rat. envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain furiously. walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten have accepted such a situation. advice." trying to your nerves." of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been just ask you whether you had heard it.' "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything and the church but not where the lady lived." "And why?" "You think that he is dead?" conclusions. them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she