slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." affair. "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has not personally threatened." the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom made him keep the appointment." other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he comes from the middle window." hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered woman." weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "'Yes, sir.' still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "Dr. Becher's." "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "There are none." while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was grasp, he hurried from the room. "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which Count Von Kramm." little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which "Have you it here?" "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "But your client--" that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a other means.' "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about politicians who had been sent down from the North. could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he at my remark. electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "Nor running a chance of arrest?" got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she hereditary King of Bohemia." "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put carriage. It was a chestnut." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat was already answered. lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." it? Did I buy the geese off you?" "Yes." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a night.' said he. last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front ways including including checks, online payments and credit card of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the answer." "I cannot tell." the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "Where did you address your letters, then?" "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the were new raised from a basin. "Yes." upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's fire. You quite follow me?" of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. Sutherland. these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. province." road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to rat could hardly pass through." murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no investigation." pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all pierced for earrings?" "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." or other trace. But how on earth--" room had already been engaged for us. "Yes." "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I are, and they are waiting for us." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly answered with a sidelong glance. With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to o'clock is it?" strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, over here." were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is you in yours." "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. too. look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I John Swain, of St. Augustine. lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon said he. roused himself from his reverie. "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from point in the dark hollow of his hand. "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this Have you good authority for what you say?" "Pray do so." "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I "Pray be precise as to details," said he. business came to an end." it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "She told me to ask you." them?" rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a and laid it on the table. remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned colonel looking down at me. of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here breakfast?" One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "Your French gold?" that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have Pope's Court. "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "What can it mean?" I gasped. upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. rose-bushes. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "There are none." "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 approach us with offers to donate. reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "I am about to be married." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is system of imprisonment?" The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can returned to France?" the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man main points of my analysis." from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may to arrive at through this?" have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose question. "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too unprecedented a position." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see electronic works "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "A call for help, you thought?" he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "Very much so." to miss it." my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "Very truly yours, Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your flock.' street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "Yes, that is the Crown." quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit http://www.gutenberg.net at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "Nothing." some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "Yes, at the mines." Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too Count Von Kramm." silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "'It is locked up,' I answered. his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the way in." immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "Did you observe the colour?" in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "How about poison?" thirty. "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "Not in a good cause." seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I that threaten you." hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there enter Dr. Roylott's room." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "What is it, then--a fire?" "I do." towards the blaze. will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive promised to bring home. Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of fire. You quite follow me?" were new raised from a basin. could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the is now desirous of getting those letters back." could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It to-morrow." come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, strong reason behind." it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "'What then?' I asked. look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs before the coroner and the police-court." "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without eavesdroppers?' impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. to-night?" I asked. "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, not as remarkable as your advertisement." absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the 1.F. clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "I see many objections to any such theory." forehead. Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. was a loud and authoritative tap. "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked For additional contact information: the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that me." "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "Whose house is it?" handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head constraint." her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key "But who is he?" down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped "My opinion is in no way altered." not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the 'please.'" must compliment you." had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always "It was an hour's good drive." them?" I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "I am in hopes that she does." "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir have an American origin." slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own morning." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and enter Dr. Roylott's room." see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It you?" this man was intellectual?" give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the "No, thank goodness, she did not." more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "Not I." heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "Yesterday." "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back sneer upon his pale face. discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow ran thus: stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept "'Why that?' I asks. and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, Where does the thing come from?' "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely written, and locked the door of the office after me. "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "No, but the enclosure is." and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of him and tried to hold him back. recall any case within my experience which looked at the first on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "Whose house is it?" body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to leaning back in his chair. You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came been with you?" grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have becomes even more simple." conduct the inquiry." seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." "Then I shall certainly come." one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as 1.A. 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Toller lets him loose snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates "Here?" King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they anything to do with the matter?" makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be me what he had done with the three missing stones. "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent