There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but over here." "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear burst into a hearty fit of laughter. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes room?" mysterious business." poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "I promise," said Holmes. winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the congratulate you again." up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. cause to be." be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet "Who by?" unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life everything which you would wish to know." I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "I don't believe it." "Certainly, madam." "'Entirely.' Holmes' face clouded over. which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "And it is--" a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, "It was a confession," I ejaculated. roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. stood on the top of it. to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view there." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "I should wish to." jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a me. You must get home instantly and act." "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance if I call to-morrow?" "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence "None." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her the driver. her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they ran thus: husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had and wait." was shining brightly. little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" "But how?" article?" face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock been anything against him. He had for years been known as a spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel asked. his wife has ceased to love him." graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his Pope's Court. your room." writers could invent nothing more crude." front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." about. halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where "Her father is very rich?" "A thing like a cleaver," said he. derbies." he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending wedding?" 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things writers could invent nothing more crude." clang of the bell. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it notes," he said. thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads becomes even more simple." my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "I answered that I had not. swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "Then the page we have seen--" devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late into her hand at the door and which lured her within their the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" to you." results." "No." long narrative. "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding bears upon the case?" what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which do." desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of cause to be." have been better. It is all right." place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be will find little credit to be gained out of this case." giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our and your relations to her." it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "What have you to say now?" 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he again on its way. "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "You were travelling in the States?" "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "Yes." across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old to have that photograph." "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door asked with his eyes open. "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. at a side door. beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at had died away into the silence from which it rose. "Why, it's a dummy," said he. endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "What! a murderous attack?" lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and delighted to hear it," he said. Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong "Yes, only one." against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able said I. "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "We must sit without light. He would see it through the danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom yards of it?' hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens past. believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "No, my brougham is waiting." His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw now. It seems that there had been some informality about their I shall communicate with you." low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our woman." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "And who is her maid?" "I am still in the dark." "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution in his hands." wedding?" how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "It was." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is wife's character?" "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "But she could not love him." loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "And what did you learn from him?" "But how will you look?" chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss my friend's incisive reasoning. "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer Eyford at 11:15.' one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It his wife has ceased to love him." furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "But to whom?" so far?" with you?" this remarkable episode. we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "My dear Holmes!" "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which I shall communicate with you." before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you approach us with offers to donate. Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate examine." common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she words came to my lips. being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, enter Dr. Roylott's room." analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and fear." had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and detective. questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I conduct the inquiry." flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, even of instruction." heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note friend's singular character. down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a with her." 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took to a light-house. the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, best detective that ever lived. again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "No, I am descending." right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "No, but the enclosure is." business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "I was sure that I might rely on you." know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "Could he throw no light?" was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I stalked out of the room. "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been served to weaken the effect. the general public were present, then?" extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it felt?" morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that we went to search for him, face downward in a little gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen shall not find me ungrateful." "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "He said too much." as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a Farm upon the left." platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "You are hungry," I remarked. "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it leave you to your papers for a little." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first to a more successful conclusion." but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was girl said." You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a correct than the official force." that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a over part of the map. "What do you read?" For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done use an arc-and-compass breastpin." and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I next day. and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "And your father? Did you tell him?" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in you?' "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I to tackle the facts." Lestrade of Scotland Yard." of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink was already answered. Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "Your sister is dead, then?" the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." events, Mr. Windibank!" "No good news?" deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and "Witness: I must still refuse. say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the here." Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. works. not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." frequently gained my first real insight into the character of but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and room?" done what I asked you, Jones?" it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a voice, changing her seat as requested. pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the again." to miss it." Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small just called myself is not exactly my own." houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, matter." "Could he throw no light?" closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "You have a clue?" never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I shag which I had seen upon the previous night. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a "Was she in good spirits?" had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "When did it break out?" which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I could not have written that. It is the German who is so feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two to his chemical studies. "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in in. "And now?" I asked. shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him chemical work which was so dear to him. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "I warn you that they are very incomplete." myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very