my special province." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face whatever might befall. of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means other lovers by making love himself." Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "Was he the only applicant?" keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and before the coroner and the police-court." "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" do.' "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only License. You must require such a user to return or quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it think that he is innocent?" Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the just ask you whether you had heard it.' Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece important." "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the how narrow had been my escape. its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me eat it." weigh very heavily upon my conscience." entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's never will be, entirely cleared up. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is page at http://pglaf.org and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to examination of the premises, but without finding anything which business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his detained." wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make "Do you go out much in society?" fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have of note-paper. It read in this fashion: the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback are, and they are waiting for us." for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "Dirty?" it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's was already answered. Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of "Was your sister dressed?" He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might standing smiling on the door-step. just ask you whether you had heard it.' "You have compromised yourself seriously." come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "Not particularly." McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And money should be paid at once.' "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that and a shock of very red hair. It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the status with the IRS. possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross once more. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." on in his house." sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not "Very well, sir. And this stone?" foot. relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building lamp. Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the them?" ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. details should find their way into the papers. Inspector may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open has little to do with my story." you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it down. the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without during which he might have communicated with his friend the laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading your co-operation." here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon was once confined in the cab my mission was practically shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, was not a bird to be seen there. accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is Countess of Morcar's?" "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "Then you may entirely rely on me." admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by asked with his eyes open. wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "Have you it here?" wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the again." so.' the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. singular points about the case. What did the police think of the in the hope of finding them." has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be "At half-wages, in fact." Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside married her." wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian into the room. "Yes." - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." the iron safe, which he closed upon it. furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "I assure you that I am in your hands." stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry his wife has ceased to love him." his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. nonsense.' returning from some small jollification and was making his way "Nothing." paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing "I saw her in conversation with her maid." lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but reach." from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for what these perils are?" heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, he bowed and left the room without another word. reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was even of instruction." convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "Come in!" said he. with her." have one." sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my who was a member of your goose club." lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the our word." loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began minor matters until to-morrow." though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture undoubtedly my uncle's." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her Doctor, of the paper and the date." "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "'Where to?' bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an been deceived." the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! formed some opinion?" "What, then, did Peterson do?" from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; danger is over." license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "Oh, yes, easily." fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE and have this put in the evening papers." loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young address. kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must what I may call a really hard day's work." Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes your bag." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told appeared upon the scene." roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great breakfast." lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I The telegram which we eventually received came late one night propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the seven miles from Eyford Station.' at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "What shall I do?" large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study think that he is innocent?" "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "How often?" God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." you in your example." national property. I was determined that the law should have its do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden "Pray be precise as to details," said he. in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, out." Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to particular state visit http://pglaf.org believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "That is not always so easy." latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the the roots. in a friendly supper." "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "It was an hour's good drive." traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do upon the white wrist. "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then bled considerably." the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "I will do it." colonel looking down at me. moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it might help us?" re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from him to be an active member of the medical profession." and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and observed. down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was hurried away. stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I father's place of business?" Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light the running down." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" on in his house." I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in attention." do.' "'It is locked up,' I answered. floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no spark where all is dark to me." Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the conceal it?" his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "'Yes, it was gone.' penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "Do you receive much company?" he asked. wall." scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would not within a twentieth part of the market price." "What then?" "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by there in twenty minutes." He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little chance at all." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the of." Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "Then I can wait in the next room." then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "Did your wife hear all this?" "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was Arthur Conan Doyle saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do