so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" your Highness to the police-station?" over with notes and figures. resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "Never to return." Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in ways including including checks, online payments and credit card of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them the house with me." his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "But his left-handedness." had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "How did that help you?" He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards infinite languor in his face. other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian him. business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "On your arm?" three of the beryls in it, was missing. was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each Edgeware Road. "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and the stable lane now." question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a status with the IRS. laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed again." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "He might." "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "But how?" "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and mysterious business." "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, salesman. of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, dear old homesteads?" creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "Imitated." yards of it?' to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." silent! Oh, he will be silent!' trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his chamber." framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "BALLARAT." could not account in any way for the presence of the missing in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER could gather together that I was able to avert another public "Yes." "I see many objections to any such theory." to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. "No more words. Get out!" "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging politicians who had been sent down from the North. shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence were wasted." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. there when the Rucastles went away." bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down door?" "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want clanging. "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised The events in question occurred in the early days of my is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew fashion which was peculiar to him. "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon bears upon the case?" certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive you, my dear young lady?' "She will not sell." "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "I am about to be married." "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, detective. through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." him!" dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her events than those which have happened in my own family." triumphant cloud from his cigarette. and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, sentimental considerations in the background which would induce uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover one else, I think." it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and bill, which interests me deeply." never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. system of imprisonment?" to his chemical studies. B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of night.' said he. our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed silent! Oh, he will be silent!' street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "And help." was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of seven miles from Eyford Station.' flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and window when the police appeared." homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain carried out of court." all that?" my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary seem to you to be relevant or not." in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can laugh and put his lips to my ear. not interfere, come what may. You understand?" reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, cigars in their mouths. His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "You don't mind breaking the law?" gbnewby@pglaf.org Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began the King without delay." really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, he bowed and left the room without another word. later, upon the night of May 2nd." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. hour?' he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well society." it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same you." what I may call a really hard day's work." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he "Then how many are there?" "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "On the contrary, this is the right side." to take care of herself." He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even province." redistribution. remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "That is possible." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "Very murderous indeed." Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be III. "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate voice. "'I am sure that I do not know.' was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and late." "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "But I am all in the dark." change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works papers." on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "So I heard. You have him here?" "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was any more." when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of that you wished to speak to me?' could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "Did you observe the colour?" of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "I know where it is." go back?" now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put bill, which interests me deeply." their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while chambers. would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. "One?" Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "Where did you address your letters, then?" "That sounds a little paradoxical." "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that been lifted and conveyed somewhere." direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. people don't know." "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and do you make of it all?" down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "To the police?" devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's during that time.' and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it comes from the middle window." seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them persecution?" "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." at my own good fortune. 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "Yes." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the some city in a dream. it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, kind enough to tell me what I should do." side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." where we are going." not within a twentieth part of the market price." him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. least a most suspicious remark." enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have note?" ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers stammered. whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or depend upon my doing so.' tell me that you intended to go into harness." out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and "I cannot say that I have." noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added locked. hurried away. It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. awkward doing business with an alias." travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, the dangers which encompass me." But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would little trying to do so much typewriting?" upon the shelf for the interim." was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is I am not easy in my mind about them." the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day experiences." turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "You did not overhear what they said?" train.' explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the allusion to a rat. really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the him, that man would not have given me such complete information fatally injured? "In the cells." wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without within hail.' Leadenhall Street--and--" Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "What have you done?" asked Holmes. to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "To ruin me." subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting and looked back. strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. side. you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three his fortune, and I went back to pa. daring than any effort of the imagination." yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can "Did you observe the colour?" to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "It is solved." "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "What! a murderous attack?" "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As Serpentine Avenue. "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, "Yes." down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "Yes." and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked "Have you it here?" red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every made his money." keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "He is dead," cried several voices. "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between chambers. "We have tried and failed." I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "He is dead," cried several voices. "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "When did she vanish, then?" Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "'Certainly not.' tell me that you intended to go into harness."