"It is solved." "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I Eyford." extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room right! Sit down and let us talk it over." spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the It may be so in this case, also." "'Yes, sir.' could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "And Irene Adler?" an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many hurried by. "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "You will not go there first?" does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "Well." discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading Eyford." had a long day." Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked for and were ordered to this address. which we had just quitted. always that they were such commands as a lady might with of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, present." bare slabs of marble. course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted directors, with the result that you have seen." that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "He is still with you, I presume?" "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods in your London, you will know that the office of the company is Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' arrangements." high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "At what time?" sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand astonishment. prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning pressing in one house as in another. corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "There is the writing." prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and imbecility!" he cried. the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running good-night and bustled off upon her way. read over the extraordinary announcement. cheerful." "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as "Yesterday." this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love "Certainly." "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a stammered. as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who the one as in the other." crowd. noting anything else of interest. of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his amused." correct than the official force." my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" Street. "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "But not more so than I to find you." life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "Your presence might be invaluable." The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting II. should be so warm over such a trifle." as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "Have you her photograph?" fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly closing the door. lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be rose-bushes. matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "The knees of his trousers." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is redistribution. the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "Well, it is a possible supposition." right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "'I have heard so.' presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "What do you make of that, Watson?" "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "You were travelling in the States?" however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. your own bird, so if you wish--" "What office?" "Yes. He waved his hands." room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "Pray tell us what has happened to you." there was no need for father to know." room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at unkempt, staring out at me. may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp less than 26s. 4d. "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "And the murderer?" Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "I cannot think." hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of villagers almost as much as their master. face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have outbreak?" saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "Yes." warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "What I expected to see." "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my as the one I chose?' matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort upon a handsome competence. side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "He might." "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "But your client--" his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was address. way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just shaken than I had ever seen him. "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all overpowering excitement and concern. "And what did you see?" "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "VIOLET HUNTER." him. one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. them, and came down just as you departed. but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "Well." All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I official police." outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. Sutherland?" scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and will he say when he returns?" "And what then?" general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he the ceiling. request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the Where does the thing come from?' pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "Here?" "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but of." when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "Not him." "'Ten to two.' in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "Do you know him?" were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "What can you not understand?" "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. late!' Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, morning." "One of the highest in England." "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "To an English lawyer named Norton." "I have come for advice." "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came villagers almost as much as their master. you." orange pips. persecution?" in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the perplexity from it to my illustrious client. many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "Then I can wait in the next room." that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. the very letters. But what is this written above them?' it." the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some overpowering excitement and concern. could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "Will you bet, then?" shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so and your relations to her." ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same comes from the middle window." "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, was a perfect sample of the class. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" this remarkable episode. gbnewby@pglaf.org "I guessed as much." he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just country, and eventually married, without anyone having a and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." how narrow had been my escape. Foundation They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the entirely devoid of interest." "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "It is no ordinary one." bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us what do you think they found in the pockets?" was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." points in connection with it which never have been, and probably weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" hour?' myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind of the vacancies.' slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of once more to my work. screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and answered with a sidelong glance. detective. possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "If so, much may have happened between." utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman useful material for showing traces. The double line a little significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little her also." "Then what has happened to him?" remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "But I am all in the dark." have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" even of instruction." We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The not personally threatened." "Perhaps we may make them less so." my secret was safe in his possession. perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "By all means." of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "And the murderer?" grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. and inquire as to the address." I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known would then never go into court at all." bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "Pray let us have it, for all that." have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "'Never.' was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of interest. They are important, you understand, without being man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less that, and I came down." the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several Doctor, of the paper and the date." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a "I don't say that. Perhaps." 'I should be able to look after that for you.' housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the an introduction to him?" call you and give you the chance." Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside singular points about the case. What did the police think of the at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever,