absorbing." the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. 1.E.9. see me here to avoid scandal." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "How did you trace it, then?" superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "He disappeared so suddenly." have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning indiscretion." "The murder was done with it." the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's guilty one." to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "By all means." The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "What then?" "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as very peculiar words of the dying woman?" of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of are, I think, all that we need." last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend served to weaken the effect. all that?" shag which I had seen upon the previous night. records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "Was he the only applicant?" them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I you, my dear young lady?' his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I of." which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. hurried by. skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "I will not look." time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," all that?" full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his his face which made him a very different person to the round, wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out round with crates and massive boxes. shadow pass over his face as I spoke. stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the I nodded again. lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite becomes even more simple." shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his o'clock is it?" telegram would bring me down to your help." those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, second window is the one that I jumped from." Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his there." chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a forebodings. zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a "Then how many are there?" "So it appears." "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "10th. John Swain cleared. Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in which was all perfectly true. "I was sure that I might rely on you." yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "Not social, then?" as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "'Ten to two.' the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "Yes." About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "Never." breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of pictures, libraries, or plate. long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit page at http://pglaf.org dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning felt the room to be a little close.' 'I should be able to look after that for you.' from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is since then to throw any light upon what became of him." has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "I should wish to." continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "One of his hands." "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard breakfast." to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little only touch the interest." breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "It goes to the housekeeper's room." he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "I think that it is very probable." to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed of receipt of the work. tell them apart.' "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "We have tried and failed." "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking when your master had gone out." ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special suspect him." whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need way: glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was and the whole place is in a blaze." journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton have one." have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is one else, I think." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it goes." front of me. "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a your Highness to the police-station?" the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an gentleman's clothes. of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "'You cannot say what it was?' became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us crime." afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at to a light-house. his grey eyes. "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily him and tried to hold him back. the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards Pope's Court, Fleet Street." against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to had formerly been in part my own. purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and who was a member of your goose club." errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course it." us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "Perhaps we may make them less so." these bleak autumnal evenings." some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could distinguish the words: "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No relation between them, and what the object of his repeated "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a "You did not overhear what they said?" correct than the official force." the house with me." tassel actually lying upon the pillow. as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "Has he come with you to-night?" was lame." beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the too. hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "He is dead," cried several voices. heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "'You cannot say what it was?' beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a plantation.' delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently page at http://pglaf.org light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the me upon any point which I do not make clear." submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same in a very precise fashion." reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they union?" "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! wedding?" morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, cigars in their mouths. fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "Did he not advertise?" and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the "We must sit without light. He would see it through the empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are to some other building. despair." abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. foresight and the moral retrogression?" 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "I warn you that they are very incomplete." questioning and rather startled gaze. "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort time." "Yes, certainly." seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no man. star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that remarked. wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and notes," he said. purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If woven round him. "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, Clair, of Lee." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to are, I think, all that we need." admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad really the only notable feature about the thing." "Stolen, then." the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic in. he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I trifles." appeal." that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. "A call for help, you thought?" "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." three of the beryls in it, was missing. "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his goes." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. prisoner's face. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your constraint." "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed a room. across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of tear off another piece?' that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your "And why in hopes?" stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face if only as a check to my own memory." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. the general public were present, then?" standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in conceal it?" glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come observed. of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his where she found matters as described by the last witness. "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and tail." "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the Sutherland. matter." "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included she has been waylaid. There has been no result." "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not swore that no one else had been in the front room during the the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I examine." Gutenberg-tm License. "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than detective. wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but this remarkable episode. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an Leave Paddington by the 11:15." present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of name is different." them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that himself in a perplexing position. threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not advice." the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and events than those which have happened in my own family." the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "Will you go?" "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money indeed which he could not unravel. "Well, it is a possible supposition." "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "So I have heard." making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "'Yes, sir.' incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the