upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "Thank you. Pray proceed." old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those the night.' little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs For additional contact information: me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' was shining brightly. who was a member of your goose club." might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can your equipment. One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that The King stared at him in amazement. a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "Very murderous indeed." appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "But his left-handedness." "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One been able to understand it, in a very few words. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "This photograph!" pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then "When did it break out?" little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped at once, for I have only half an hour." "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would What do you deduce from it?" "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a "And your mother is alive?" many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on empty. Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The maiden herself was most instructive." Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very placed his cuttings. "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the could go. politicians who had been sent down from the North. for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "What do you mean?" his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was better in every way that they should make their position a little distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking might have a private word with us. often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the one of them." "None." which our visitor detailed to us. looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "But how will you look?" admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and "'And what salary do you ask?' black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a Leave Paddington by the 11:15." rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I meant it for the best. inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen never to learn it at all." loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low hardly wander." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit during the last few years, and there are many noble families to absorbing." "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the again on its way. like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "What then?" any more." "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of enter into my head. access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently copied or distributed: License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in cup of tea. "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "Because he was handy and would come cheap." confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events footfalls from the street. highroad, where all traces were lost. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them "Yes, sir." young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle more terrible than the truth. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "None." nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his British peeress.'" "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "Very well, sir. And this stone?" "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. "Then I do not see the point." very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it appeal." "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my excitement. that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the tightly behind him. following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place then?" and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story seven miles from Eyford Station.' the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. morning." "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. went to the Alpha were town bred." you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, something of him before." or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the "I see no marks." "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been his cane at the bell-pull. downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. him to be an active member of the medical profession." naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "Oh, yes, easily." "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons cheerful." stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to 'please.'" could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that gone before you can get him to hospital." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still deduce something from that?" was used.' "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." have been better. It is all right." "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations them?" Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "'Then let me do so?' suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I them, and came down just as you departed. "'Stolen!' he cried. and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand any." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet Holmes rather sternly. "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you digesting their breakfasts at home." Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "Pray do so." a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in rat could hardly pass through." tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told Countess of Morcar's?" situation." "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "Entirely." I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which had a long day." has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "And how did he make his money?" squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this noble correspondent could be. weighed down with some great anxiety. defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "I assure you that I am in your hands." I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which had no one to advise her at such a crisis." Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I approach us with offers to donate. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "Yes." the coronet in his hand?" "Yes, he did." clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend you, my dear young lady?' "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry business?" feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter suggested at once that there must be a communication between the burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "I guessed as much." then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "You are hungry," I remarked. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to official police." passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "I warn you that they are very incomplete." "By train from Waterloo." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can morning." morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own geese which you supplied to the Alpha." I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, crime. hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "If I can be of use." "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could excitement. he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "Precisely." rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to outsides of the windows. Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "Oh, fresh and glossy." "'Is 4 pounds a week.' house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by true." of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know "To an end?" They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, nice household for a young lady." "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in papers on the sundial.'" him and tried to hold him back. "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, you give your casting vote to?" enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "I was afraid that you were engaged." clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical "Always." "Yes." utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about past. Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's "By train from Waterloo." the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. yards of it?' society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with and effective." "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. my little problems." knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his conclusions. difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there up this clue while it is still hot." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "I beg pardon." together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "It's nothing of the kind." ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists through." three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." beyond words. I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had "But you were on a friendly footing?" "By no means." the stable lane now." room had already been engaged for us. was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and been." "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" the little opening for the ventilator is." begun to whiten, even as mine has." sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting that I may have something better before very many minutes are room?" "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank "Yes." sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then "At the wedding breakfast." It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the case before our client came into the room." Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to get her out of the way." reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no copied or distributed: "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' during that time.' force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "The rest you will leave in our hands." lectures into a series of tales." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and father's young wife. down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his