finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "I promise," said Holmes. "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "You horrify me." which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the wife's character?" call the police, let the police find what they can.' be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid feature." "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you "Then I shall certainly come." "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, "Nothing?" frequently gained my first real insight into the character of left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he bearing upon the case." "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers danger is over." I shall communicate with you." how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed that I am arrested." "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of there was no need for father to know." chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." through." "How about poison?" dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, matter." "What have you done?" asked Holmes. that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "None." as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my generous with you in money matters.' distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. present." once more. at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" to a light-house. "Do you receive much company?" he asked. has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster someone who had been in Australia." your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with politicians who had been sent down from the North. are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. It may be so in this case, also." "Absolutely none." tightly behind him. and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that questioning and rather startled gaze. "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the wedding?" Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "When did it break out?" Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "Yes, certainly." new acquaintance to Baker Street. the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "And when will you call?" table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." waste of energy." "We were both in the photograph." "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to man. I know him from the photograph." jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. father's young wife. building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some before, for it was considerably after midnight. over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in gigantic client. each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "'And what salary do you ask?' "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very had a long day." refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other was shining brightly. would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? test if we have an answer to our advertisement." permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I started for the Temple to see my husband. as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "But she could not love him." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would with you alone." suddenly upon us." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, But Holmes shook his head gravely. supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or that you can jump it.' my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. take the flies, but not before." should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, new acquaintance to Baker Street. entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step and wait." vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary may have an influence upon European history." voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved stepfather?" "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts became a certainty. and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable noble correspondent could be. dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not future lives." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this acted in my house last night?" however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy are, I think, all that we need." enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "In San Francisco, a year ago." happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite chemical work which was so dear to him. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it Stoke Moran." Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or DAMAGE. "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to records." events, Mr. Windibank!" was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. "And why in hopes?" ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "'What, the red-headed man?' smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "No." "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my of Mr. Rucastle's." was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said "How did he come?" came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass "'Where could I find him?' When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with deduce something from that?" "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar "What?" is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "Imitated." "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "What?" "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who some city in a dream. the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this nonsense.' "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and and the whole place is in a blaze." loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "Where to?" "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just During two years I have had three consultations and one small "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently weary and pale-looking. Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a present." was a perfect sample of the class. and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "'Where could I find him?' All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "'Which dealer's?' "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a October 9, 1890. may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission examine." Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, and effective." upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from troubles have been weighing upon his mind. the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to spare." happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "By no means." possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a God! What an exposure! What can I do?" room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper south, for the country is more deserted there." old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. frequently gained my first real insight into the character of single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin his wife has ceased to love him." Chief Executive and Director "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, clang of the bell. "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and future lives." admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an husband's writing, madam." About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between started for the Temple to see my husband. past. "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "But how?" on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and to Leatherhead. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet of note-paper. It read in this fashion: settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am the iron safe, which he closed upon it. sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both of it with the greatest attention. one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have a monotonous occupation." large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside success. "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" relation between them, and what the object of his repeated and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of the matter." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "Here?" in him." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big