legal crime." first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter words came to my lips. "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of information in his hands the value of which he did not himself Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an husband's writing, madam." answered with a sidelong glance. memory. his cane at the bell-pull. window when the police appeared." INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite she might be summoned. somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right jewels which you have stolen?' "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "Can I be of assistance?" scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. through." princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and is," said he presently: observed. of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, existence." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared crime." back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything sound at heart." "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a as noiselessly as she had come. outside. servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible "'As governess?' "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of me." which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "'And the work?' It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I once more for Briony Lodge. is entirely a question of barometric pressure." would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so "ARAT," I read. well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her call the police, let the police find what they can.' "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," more terrible than the truth. old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "I have my revolver," said I. zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper business came to an end." "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." will be renamed. deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little woman who has had her own way to make in the world. wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late too. held up the lantern and gazed about him. or other trace. But how on earth--" "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "'I am sure that I do not know.' back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a of them has the shutters up.' I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "And that is--" she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a "No bad?" ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "And how have you succeeded?" seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural to have been novel and of interest." state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from voice. whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "When did it break out?" house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "Where to?" tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite not come at once?" him, that man would not have given me such complete information "I never have." and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you likely to be some crony of the landlady's." his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have compunction about shooting them down." "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the pound a week." of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have read it out to me." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner was already answered. really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys amused." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called strength in the others." traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." rooms." "It is possible." magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the outbreak?" deduce something from that?" of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. south, for the country is more deserted there." "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "'As governess?' inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that annoyance, but no jest. save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece troubles have been weighing upon his mind. in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the bled considerably." look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "At what time?" really the only notable feature about the thing." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do It was close upon four before the door opened, and a more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could think that any burglar could have done. Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way know all about it," he snarled. dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the "Won't it ring?" our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself becomes even more simple." get the tickets." himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after fashion which was peculiar to him. tear off another piece?' "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a records." there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" "'Certainly not. But why?' "I think that I had better go, Holmes." flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" stalked out of the room. hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "Thank you. Pray proceed." gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a then?" sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported criminal. We have already had experience of such." ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not the night.' of his shoulders. came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I hair?' controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it "Then you may be so with me." truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of case before our client came into the room." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to and the whole place is in a blaze." the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything the devil!" there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been hour?' to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I lips." traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while ashen face. "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. What do you deduce from it?" In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to that?' "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." such attractions and accomplishments?' lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will young Openshaw's." wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in voice. friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of upon the shelf for the interim." "I should like to see him very much." the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the giving me time to thank him. India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his important." "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that But Holmes shook his head gravely. keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client you found me to-night--and running through the front room she this Miss Turner." "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. congratulate you again." demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "Get out!" said he. "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "No?" of campaign. days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, villagers almost as much as their master. It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" crowd. "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "And how in the world did you find them?" it? Did I buy the geese off you?" rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after face and glided from the room. inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest has little to do with my story." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he head. So long, then!" caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' in one or two places in England?' woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I them?" "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, spare." back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable orange pips. red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; to tell." fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is said he. should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." "The Cedars?" money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 narrative." Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity himself in a perplexing position. her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a any little problem which you may submit to me." in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where "That sounds a little paradoxical." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots as he remarks, very much against the son." "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, green of the new foliage. "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "Yes." "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father an introduction to him?" so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is hurried away. "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She enter Dr. Roylott's room." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional of the efforts of the United States government and of the better dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it clang of the bell. hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "Did he not advertise?" "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. one else, I think." "Why did you pick him?" I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of are windows in it, of course?" months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." "It certainly sounds feasible." somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must it." age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort "What shall I do?" of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "I am in hopes that she does." an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and His name is Francis Prosper." "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed I shall continue with my miserable story. difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "He slept on the premises." qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a an introduction to him?" condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be have been better. It is all right." dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do guilty one." across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. leave you to your papers for a little." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern off." refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "It certainly sounds feasible." "And is that all?" after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his