four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You looking up at the numbers of the houses." matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in it? Did I buy the geese off you?" for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in power." head. So long, then!" "But who is he?" way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were things are very often connected not with the larger but with the hopeless attempt at recovering them." only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and been deceived." Serpentine Avenue. came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers vault. can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." lost nothing by them." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. shadow pass over his face as I spoke. at my remark. to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. Sutherland?" in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a cost them two and thirty pounds." "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do Countess of Morcar's?" "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as Holmes." "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "I promise," said Holmes. my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "No good news?" myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both noble correspondent could be. and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project room. "It is very kind of you." fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came I have it here in my museum." muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! sufficient punishment." time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. strange features which were associated with the two crimes which threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "Frequently." lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "Whose house is it?" judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came she might be summoned. suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling past. having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would night.' said he. Edgeware Road. from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my weary and pale-looking. abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "So I heard. You have him here?" ourselves in the office." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those you." back alive. stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; individual and becomes the badge of a society." inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "I have solved it." Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "Yes, there are nearly always some there." in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year "Always." "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "You think that he is dead?" are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "But you can know nothing of this?" my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I advice." garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are round and wave him away like that.' You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the fait accompli?" "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, have one." was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a the window, rose as we entered. "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE floor. happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I will not take me long to tell. when you have done it." stood on the top of it. could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near you understand?" vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the kind enough to tell me what I should do." dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for the matter." him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the that he will be back before evening." end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad me. You must get home instantly and act." the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "Certainly." drawing your inferences." "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a on re-entering her father's house?" purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached enter into my head. long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "I was mad--insane." "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of jewels which you have stolen?' this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for careless servant girl?" habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." you want, then?' fatally injured? "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in never will be, entirely cleared up. us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I suspect him." a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "Just look it up, then." ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "That is not always so easy." than to us. gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the that you saw all that I did." home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "No, but the enclosure is." remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "Nothing." upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was it. quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "Dr. Becher's." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE Edgeware Road. during that time.' "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew o'clock is it?" have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "I cannot imagine." observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his "What have you to say now?" "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "Precisely so. But how--" "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "Yes, only one." plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, gbnewby@pglaf.org double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white burst into a hearty fit of laughter. "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both copied or distributed: Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "Your sister is dead, then?" held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my "He might." be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not his knees, staring into the fire. and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce not personally threatened." there has been an enclosure here!" point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance man. I know him from the photograph." Mrs. Toller serenely. "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "Not him." to-night's adventure." your most interesting statement." repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few forehead. good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place the dangers which encompass me." "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "Not in the least." but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, what these perils are?" in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight asked with his eyes open. endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" into the bag, and made for the door. "Was there a secret marriage?" even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "On your arm?" "I cannot imagine." "And your mother is alive?" Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not records." examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy think that he is innocent?" shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' was a lad." The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position off." Watson," he said cordially. something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any narrative." I shall continue with my miserable story. last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "'No, I know no one in these parts.' "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the bore every mark of being an average commonplace British muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to persecution?" receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "No, my brougham is waiting." the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and do.' bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "Yes, from Horsham." you?" scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "Seven!" I answered. "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without might help us?" are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." of his shoulders. Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of Arthur Conan Doyle while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. into the bag, and made for the door. to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up could gather together that I was able to avert another public found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any "You are certainly joking, Holmes." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" him to go away.' "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend and laid it on the table. There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business to-morrow." "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony know all about it," he snarled. "You have compromised yourself seriously." The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to seven miles from Eyford Station.' call it cruel." "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "No, distinctly professional." "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years before, for it was considerably after midnight. better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the point our research must commence, and we will begin it by by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the "Where did you address your letters, then?" "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of disappearance of the bride.'" "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to cause to be." words came to my lips. "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "But what is it you wish?" professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with into the room. "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "Inspector Bradstreet, sir."