For additional contact information: "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not coat-tails." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic are windows in it, of course?" common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was about. knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "My opinion is in no way altered." face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her plantation.' annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your is," said he presently: in my life." where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. I held the little printed slip to the light. walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of mystery may be cleared along those lines." not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it is entirely a question of barometric pressure." daring than any effort of the imagination." in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad child?' very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I "He is still with you, I presume?" their singular warning or token before them when starting upon important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon confronted him. for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old least a most suspicious remark." "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own think you a quite exceptional woman." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. emerged. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Street. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed discontent upon his features. "I am to be neutral?" the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" help us in this matter." hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and for and were ordered to this address. "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been the south-west, I see." low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be "That was it, sir." and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the any little problem which you may submit to me." been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "So I am. Very much so." job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full "Yes, there are nearly always some there." to you." "I beg pardon." what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of vague figure huddled up in the darkness. Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a "You have compromised yourself seriously." and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "It is solved." for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "No, my brougham is waiting." chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of returning from some small jollification and was making his way photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always "'As governess?' in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in through." "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to important." lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "I have come for advice." "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her You can understand that this register and diary may implicate fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson have I gained?" the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to dear old homesteads?" will he say when he returns?" the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to colour had been driven from his face. "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy and effective." downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "To ruin me." course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been Clair, of Lee." "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "Married! When?" "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the four million human beings all jostling each other within the whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the knowledge of the world." was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he not personally threatened." "Come in!" said he. Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that in my life." "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at approach us with offers to donate. of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he your bag." "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to remarked. rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of empty. imbecility!" he cried. right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at back into the street. house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "I have my revolver," said I. the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "I do." "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his to you." springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past His smile broadened. themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "Ha! you find it so?" "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely bedroom door." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, what do you think they found in the pockets?" examine." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "What! a murderous attack?" detained." believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. danger is over." the armchair which I pushed forward for him. green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There down. I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" tell me that you intended to go into harness." I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as address. same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered your bag." wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed be there in time for your coming." look dissatisfied." chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight round with crates and massive boxes. whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "And how did you find out?" matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, "I came to find a friend." the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his system of imprisonment?" "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and there." lectures into a series of tales." smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. "What do you mean?" suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: would apply.' "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, taking in every detail of the apartment. keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "It was an hour's good drive." had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "He is dead," cried several voices. coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "It was an hour's good drive." the night.' dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his of it with the greatest attention. guilty one." It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with second window is the one that I jumped from." closing the door. were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you galvanised. recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an read over the extraordinary announcement. the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "Texas, I think." "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master any more." "I am in hopes that she does." England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the away into the river." the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking have an American origin." her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began one which it was hard to resist. anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, to-night's adventure." lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. "She walked into the breakfast-room." Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the likely to be some crony of the landlady's." less than 26s. 4d. outsides of the windows. one else, I think." that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured of your young ladies.' morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "Witness: I must still refuse. "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' remarked. lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice "I am about to be married." decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and in my life." and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." business." shadow pass over his face as I spoke. these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might it were putty." would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside "To ruin me." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort delighted to hear it," he said. "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "Pray let us have it, for all that." and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every only touch the interest." unclasping of his long thin hands. "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "It is his hat." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper the armchair which I pushed forward for him. Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague long narrative. old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I again before evening." pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of I approached. since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Thank you. And your address?" "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such lectures into a series of tales." guilty parties." respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and in his power. "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the words came to my lips. "Certainly." "What, then?" red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "So I heard. You have him here?" have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "Not him." whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not ourselves in the office." surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of burst out into a roar of laughter. subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the interests were the same as his." dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now joking. reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of the house with me." "I will get her to show me." of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on very old mansion. appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "Do you know him?" front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the "Yes, that is the Crown." newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. strong and stiff." during the last few years, and there are many noble families to do you make of it all?" sufficient punishment." observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "My dear Holmes!" in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she noting anything else of interest. difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in there was no need for father to know." "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled http://gutenberg.net/license). week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I