"It was an hour's good drive." deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at the nursery. robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone had picked up in the wood. "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "None." character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a that the gas is not laid on in his house?" "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a promised to bring home. "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which correct than the official force." total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "I assure you that I am in your hands." "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came kind enough to tell me what I should do." "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, mystery." the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you think that he is innocent?" "I see many objections to any such theory." is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' just called myself is not exactly my own." all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double the morning and make my own way in the world.' You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to second." "Absolutely?" "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "He is still with you, I presume?" I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence read it out to me." which our visitor detailed to us. "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him his grey eyes. I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would from the brougham. "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "My stepfather's business papers." my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the should be taken.' DISSOLVED. "Why? What do you mean?" "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from "I think that it is very probable." "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your nice household for a young lady." "How did you trace it, then?" only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. said he. examine." both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the felt?" incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in like gravel from a pit.' true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since most important business. It is probable that he will be away all matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other the Friday. Was it to be in church?" pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, Foundation a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "9th. McCauley cleared. decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here question," said Holmes, smiling. and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "Oh, the cause is excellent!" As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." "Tired-looking or fresh?" "Was the window open?" neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "I should like to see him very much." careless servant girl?" Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual to-night?' submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, the side-table." bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have I approached. the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one everything which you would wish to know." He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in relief. them?" "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "And I say east," said my patient. The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only outside. always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is companion. It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "It is no ordinary one." stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell country, and eventually married, without anyone having a "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "Thank you. And your address?" "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will help us in this matter." this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the this truth that in these little records of our cases which you "By no means." slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then once more for Briony Lodge. "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated it." hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "Then you may be so with me." would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to coat-tails." battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "'And what salary do you ask?' the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, nice household for a young lady." fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their frequently gained my first real insight into the character of journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest "He is dead," cried several voices. little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his easy-going way." habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in wife's character?" locked." "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, ventilator." back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your colonel looking down at me. whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! fattened it expressly for you.' such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I DAMAGE. not interfere, come what may. You understand?" and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "I have a cab outside." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it him. "If I can be of use." "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "Deserted you?" tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called me where it went to?" my special province." "Because he was handy and would come cheap." appeal." man. "Pray continue your narrative." while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "That is also quite modern," said the lady. shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' delighted to hear it," he said. railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "Frequently." they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. to a light-house. I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional gone. small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" chill to my heart. this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "Why did you beat the pavement?" John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever occurred." Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some galvanised. of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "I saw her in conversation with her maid." strange features which were associated with the two crimes which that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other sparkled upon his finger. "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "Of Friday, June 19th." "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the wedding?" you give your casting vote to?" to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, assist you in forming an opinion." Holmes. "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew extraordinary contortions. other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is me. "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too away to you." trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when nonsense.' "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue the loss of it. upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most with frightened eyes at his accuser. in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he showing my impatience. sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "Certainly." "There is the writing." the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I upon the sideboard." "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," back into the street. late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found upon a handsome competence. WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the the running down." is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "No, thank goodness, she did not." should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the "So I am. Very much so." people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in which we had just quitted. They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. upon the sideboard." what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature peculiar to him. would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this morning." to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were to take care of herself." She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and case-book, which he consulted. of campaign. case before our client came into the room." young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "Come in!" said Holmes. at home. visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from leave you to your papers for a little." "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography window when the police appeared." "But we can't all be." must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "Well, but China?" article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your place no limit on the sum I may draw." "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." thought that she would have been so carried away." knowledge of the world." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. o'clock is it?" say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "What steps will you take?" I asked. what these perils are?" recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." enter into my head. stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" present." "I never have." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our the little opening for the ventilator is." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable answer." "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as and wait." "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "Not I." concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "'Certainly not.' an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the foot. home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common good-night and bustled off upon her way. and effective."