unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. waste of energy." that threaten you." "I guessed as much." did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the I nodded again. to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his look dissatisfied." in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. it means?" over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an relief. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "Yes, only one." very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. really the only notable feature about the thing." started for the Temple to see my husband. but preventing her from injuring another. "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of hair?' is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me sparkled upon his finger. "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and "Never." was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "Will you bet, then?" "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "It is a murder, then?" Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "I promise," said Holmes. the iron safe, which he closed upon it. friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong row." "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He information in his hands the value of which he did not himself repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is whatever might befall. withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to you?" from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "Really! You surprise me." a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and "But who is he?" comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for father's place of business?" tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "But I am all in the dark." but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work mystery." corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up said he. a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "'Very good.' mystery." The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into subject to the trademark license, especially commercial consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "It surprised me." and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "What will you do, then?" in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "I would pay ten." furiously. been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, with frightened eyes at his accuser. guilty one." "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "'Where to?' awaited us upon the table. "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "In the cells." minor matters until to-morrow." before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King one which it was hard to resist. the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a himself in a perplexing position. rooms." interested in these little problems, and since you are good would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like too. room. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "We were both in the photograph." "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice think that he is innocent?" return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then burst into a hearty fit of laughter. this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." to affect your life." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to she has been waylaid. There has been no result." They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "Because he was handy and would come cheap." round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a to Leatherhead. really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he "What!" he roared. I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "He said that you could solve anything." the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may be. bird of prey. "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square simple cases which are so extremely difficult." again." the south-west, I see." explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "Not I." 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "It certainly sounds feasible." sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was said he. card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to "Yes." empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "But what harm can there be in that?" course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I have not had my rubber." cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, your billet.' do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted rat could hardly pass through." machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker sooner or later she must fall a victim. "Where, then?" But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the young Openshaw's." you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, do.' all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "You have but to name it." hour." American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." seen the man in the road." "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we one which it was hard to resist. stepfather?" very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am wedding?" to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have walking." "It is half-past ten now." charged with?" violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a Doctor, of the paper and the date." surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge morning." "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from which we had just quitted. state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out detained." and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest system of imprisonment?" fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully the armchair which I pushed forward for him. time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' London for the present?" forbidden door. the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "But the mystery?" drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." the iron safe, which he closed upon it. question. that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said not interfere, come what may. You understand?" convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must Dr. Gregory B. Newby so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing astonishment. and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "I will not look." house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "Entirely." occupations.' "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain "Indeed! Whose, then?" lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no business." "No. What a strange idea!" such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside to have been novel and of interest." have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs case before our client came into the room." going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "Nearly eleven." "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your said he, "my real name is James Ryder." other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous tell me that you intended to go into harness." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "About a month then." your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as of receipt of the work. "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "My dear Holmes!" "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never "Stolen, then." father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or key of the affair now." other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in an introduction to him?" "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done pound a week." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop been." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "I think that it is very probable." glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." intrusion of other matters." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked "You have it, sir, just as it happened." The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove the window, rose as we entered. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his burst into a hearty fit of laughter. word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before most interesting one." and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case problems help me to do so." before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the then?" "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her clanging. "Your sister is dead, then?" occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that your bag." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee his grey eyes. probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the comes from the middle window." had picked up in the wood. "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of hereditary King of Bohemia." "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "I say it is." hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six I took the paper from him and read as follows: And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "It is his hat." planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began exactly what you advise." there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were his eyes and forehead. shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his the Friday. Was it to be in church?" B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "What is it, then--a fire?" come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to his knees, staring into the fire. remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "Where to?" the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there there were so many in the whole country as were brought together feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled trifles." than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should in your London, you will know that the office of the company is Leadenhall Street--and--" public press." heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have God! What an exposure! What can I do?" pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between the coroner come to?" "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing Miss Holder?" before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "Was the window open?" I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "But she will refuse." the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he detained." correct than the official force." that before taking the final step I should like to submit the