glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "But she will refuse." confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the that, and I came down." cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do experiences." "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at your sleep?' "What! Had he lost his wife?" order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to pity, because in other respects you would really have done very her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who is worth.' door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "Where, then, is my wife?" liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly opened a pocket-book and took out a note. of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at a room. to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I legal crime." "I do." "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her and all of them with the keenest interest. for and were ordered to this address. in the port of London." from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the means taking possession of that which another person has a prior two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. are windows in it, of course?" these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" straightened it out again. Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "It is to him that this trophy belongs." my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say once more for Briony Lodge. "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the Cross for the Continent." woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible Pope's Court. the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do outside." with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too "'Stolen!' he cried. "Then how many are there?" They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a business came to an end." shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "How did that help you?" clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been one of the states of the Union." sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her Serpentine Avenue. has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping me where it went to?" "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual to me. miles off. "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "'Yes, sir.' cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at "It is no ordinary one." his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was details." conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has present strange and interesting features that it is no easy eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must III. waste of energy." which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of happened." Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he where we are going." his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying in the port of London." Cross for the Continent." "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "How did you trace it, then?" sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and had this final quarrel? "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing instincts rose up against that laugh. simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "Then what has happened to him?" evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, "I am following you closely," I answered. no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously which should have the effect of calling the attention of the that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "How on earth--" spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations to change my dress. of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an returning from some small jollification and was making his way between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while me." this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, tied." very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can was feeling which was the fattest.' "Yes." of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know soul! here is her carriage at the door." accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect 'please.'" she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I introspective fashion. paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' back into the street. for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "It is half-past ten now." and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "Not him." could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence Lee, in the county of Kent." of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very and all of them with the keenest interest. "I answered that I had not. with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "What! You do not mean bodies?" at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The them, and came down just as you departed. heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we did not hear it also.' are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I Foundation will find little credit to be gained out of this case." as the one I chose?' "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat so far?" "Nothing?" the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them frequently gained my first real insight into the character of waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me at my own good fortune. "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! best detective that ever lived. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I father's place of business?" "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. carpenter." "I think it very unlikely." and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS brought there to personate someone, and the real person is and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." I nodded again. the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "Not particularly." moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. the matter?" agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I affair. to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were success. hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. upon a handsome competence. a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "Won't it ring?" While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of Holmes' room. horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "And how?" he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "The decline of his fortunes, then?" To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "Yes. He waved his hands." of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back room?" "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, his huge brown hands. was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and crime." "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." exactly what you advise." "How did he come?" back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open the matter." "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "Witness: It was. a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "You heard nothing yourself last night?" shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is enough to aid us in our search." "Was she in good spirits?" province." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" and looked back. photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it populous neighbourhood." "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to London for the present?" "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "That is unusual in a young girl." there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what photograph?" stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH woven round him. you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your undoubtedly my uncle's." nights." besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" he bowed and left the room without another word. "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "Ah!" produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in me have 200 pounds?' the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life and inquire as to the address." fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with an introduction to him?" four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of tell them apart.' only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a straightened it out again. he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace telegram would bring me down to your help." the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "Certainly." something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "No." "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "To ruin me." light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil sit on the left-hand side of the driver." you, my dear young lady?' searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: come either from the window or the door. My attention was "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" directly by questioning you." "Where, indeed?" and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words Project Gutenberg-tm works. be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." I shall communicate with you." direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "Very much so." her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "What do you mean?" the child." bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly will take you up to see the machine.' kind enough to tell me what I should do." He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She written. "Not I." hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." sneer upon his pale face. savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil window when the police appeared." grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of Holmes' face clouded over. material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "And I say east," said my patient. explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a DISSOLVED. "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion appeal." power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their golden eyeglasses. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. returned to France?" "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "Then you may entirely rely on me." find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until I took the paper from him and read as follows: should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me."