bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" "Bought." woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the bonnet, and went out." every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings appointment with me for six o'clock?" "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock questionable one." cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He and effective." clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." upon the white wrist. the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." to-morrow." thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical you want, then?' your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should the little opening for the ventilator is." one's self under obligations.' "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle less than 26s. 4d. "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." train.' next day. sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "'As governess?' who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a photograph a cabinet?" Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like morning." and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the Munro.' that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "No." long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew your most interesting statement." What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts house for five minutes.' geese which you supplied to the Alpha." "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." highly," said Holmes. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "Certainly." Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a I nodded again. platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. "I was afraid that you were engaged." piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "Murdered?" Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to along the entire front of the house, with three long windows Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his "'Tell me all about it,' said I. have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they taking in every detail of the apartment. in his power. "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a "'Yes, sir.' "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to she used." we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have that before taking the final step I should like to submit the while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second not, dad?" she asked. he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I stepfather?" it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "'It is locked up,' I answered. rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent again before evening." "'Why that?' I asks. something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room head. So long, then!" left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "And your mother is alive?" copied or distributed: to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was be there in time for your coming." "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." "But she could not love him." retorted upon me, and I on you." then?" that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "Certainly, madam." "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the client, rising. too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before deduce something from that?" "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know good for you to do.' leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" residence of the great financier. rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "'Certainly,' I answered. "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money do." "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "Certainly." appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work him and tried to hold him back. "He might." drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: this Miss Turner." she used." "I assure you that I am in your hands." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "Perfectly so." theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." house for five minutes.' common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all hereditary King of Bohemia." therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "Then you may be so with me." over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the and glanced through. room had already been engaged for us. of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week the side-table." the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we enough to aid us in our search." Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "'As governess?' so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock morning." "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with arrested. You then--" your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no made his money." "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to letters?" wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "Then you may entirely rely on me." is a common subject for conversation. attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at brought there to personate someone, and the real person is "I am still in the dark." expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of prison!" in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he sit on the left-hand side of the driver." permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he not within a twentieth part of the market price." "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something shoulder; "he's all right." remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "'You doubt its value?' he asked. with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "And what did you see?" "'Yes, I promise.' maiden herself was most instructive." rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I said he. "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, footfalls from the street. "Well?" eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "Deserted you?" "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure one of the states of the Union." there in twenty minutes." definite end. me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were at once, for I have only half an hour." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "And I." right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's his grey eyes. should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly awkward doing business with an alias." nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony States. he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him way in everything. tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss when your master had gone out." be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever observed. o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little business came to an end." Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this locked." I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him miles off. "And on what day did he meet his death?" He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel not come at once?" merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "I would pay ten." to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "'I shall certainly be there.' me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, was shining brightly. obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "And help." have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not was already answered. affection." father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." before, for it was considerably after midnight. the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon Does that suggest anything?" "You forget that I know nothing about it." us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were you." those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove of campaign. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. upon the sideboard." photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the instituted." alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to lumber-room." Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my and capable of preserving a secret.' the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some not as remarkable as your advertisement." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the details should find their way into the papers. Inspector sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back train from Paddington which would bring you there at about Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "It certainly sounds feasible." where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I writing, and yet I know it well." "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, electronic works from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that gbnewby@pglaf.org child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair Farm upon the left." "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother to-morrow." "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the returning from some small jollification and was making his way "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "Was he the only applicant?" "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. perplexity from it to my illustrious client. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between bore every mark of being an average commonplace British my room." machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing "By no means." but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. and put his glass in his pocket. "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers standing smiling on the door-step. go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, as he remarks, very much against the son." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our "How did you deduce the select?" cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had that threaten you." 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "Oh, fresh and glossy." "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but during which he might have communicated with his friend the afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: ordinary clothes on?" sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and house for five minutes.' front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a