"Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior possible that we could bring him back to her? Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "The doctor?" "You will not go there first?" alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and Heh?' a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near 1.E.9. orange pips. ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "Certainly." on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable a little more before I quite committed myself. The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "'I have heard so.' "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "Which are?" sound at heart." my secret was safe in his possession. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the frequently gained my first real insight into the character of as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. IS yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." them, and came down just as you departed. "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "I am still in the dark." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "'A dozen yards or so.' "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of over his head with a sweet womanly caress. them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "How often?" And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning not as remarkable as your advertisement." which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not your co-operation." past. "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my of the way of danger. covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with point our research must commence, and we will begin it by you?' our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "Oh, the cause is excellent!" there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all go from here to the Strand." still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "No." strength in the others." She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really for its centre. "I answered that I had not. II. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "10th. John Swain cleared. company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "I will do it." the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "The vanishing of the lady." For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. round and wave him away like that.' For additional contact information: adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. some mystery and the punishment of some crime." so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if my secret was safe in his possession. the coronet in his hands?" the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles "'And the work?' "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and the driver. outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? correct than the official force." "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "Quite so. She has her freedom." go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was fashion which was peculiar to him. profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "Certainly." wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning photograph?" in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "That is not always so easy." "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether gone. the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which morning." have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is I shall communicate with you." As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "There are none." if only as a check to my own memory." money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all less than 26s. 4d. as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some bird I ate is country bred." Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in into her hand at the door and which lured her within their the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." hardly wander." "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of stood on the top of it. "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no is so. I know all about McCarthy." "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who Have you good authority for what you say?" my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "Witness: It was. strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple thirty. man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had "You will not go there first?" refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "Bought." coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you tail." waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "You have but to name it." to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well lips." signal between you and your father? to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. pressing in one house as in another. safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat Street. "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "How did that help you?" southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me developed." down. that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "Yes." thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and "Nothing." science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, their singular warning or token before them when starting upon to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your it with his own hands." common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "If I can be of use." a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to little trying to do so much typewriting?" "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until colour had been driven from his face. of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and observed. specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "Never." abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which true." Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very my room." Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in and the colonel ushered me in. village inn over there?" somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we you want, then?' square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "What, then?" "By train from Waterloo." "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "Ha! you find it so?" forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "Was she in good spirits?" "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "Yes, it was twisted." "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people even so self-evident a thing as that." at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "In answer to an advertisement." think, you have already met." have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most them, and came down just as you departed. "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your directly by questioning you." Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her "I say that I have solved it." "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "It is true that I have been generally successful." "Imitated." Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? noise which awoke you from your sleep?" betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "To an end?" Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." late!' anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "To an end?" tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "I am armed." propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. and all of them with the keenest interest. landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods miles off. building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "No." with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come on in his house." very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" the room while you explain this matter?" might have a private word with us. Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "'How far from the body?' "Yes." strength of mind to control. confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from "What shall I do?" "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "But his left-handedness." equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps other means.' approach us with offers to donate. feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that best detective that ever lived. find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, thought that she would have been so carried away." perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated nothing with him." scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "'A dozen yards or so.' "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He were wasted." "What! You do not mean bodies?" "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's conversation I have gathered that they have been married about applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "'And the work?' it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen death." firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "Not yet." and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a tightly behind him. few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this Eyford at 11:15.' be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, make me his representative both with the servants and with the young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making