"Where, indeed?" from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and congratulate you again." went to the Alpha were town bred." dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" he. only touch the interest." invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "'Tell me all about it,' said I. The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "'No, I know no one in these parts.' can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the entirely lost his self-respect." stalked out of the room. every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily intimate personal affairs in this public manner." What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." the tragedy. pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "I know where it is." the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm whereabouts. "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" goes." "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the that I can to serve you." already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "'There is a drive, then?' obstinate." have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending done what I asked you, Jones?" danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about it. upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and exactly what you advise." protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New Dr. Gregory B. Newby c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." village inn over there?" "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main quickly through a disagreeable task. directly by questioning you." fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and just called myself is not exactly my own." autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of vault. how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a matter." was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off light and attacked it." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "Nearly eleven." He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "I should like to see him very much." abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "And the murderer?" that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. neither fascinating nor artistic." thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money at a side door. tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and begin with, and I had not got mine yet." one else, I think." the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. thought that she would have been so carried away." "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the away into the river." "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A strength of mind to control. Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought with you?" "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose "We have tried and failed." maiden herself was most instructive." photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "It is possible." back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church burst into a hearty fit of laughter. send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true golden eyeglasses. sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I obstinate." This is what he says: orange pips. "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "And you can do nothing until then?" narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without your room." dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to attention." and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "He is dead," cried several voices. Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "He said that you could solve anything." annoyance, but no jest. puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been and shall probably return to London by the evening train." at a side door. dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "Have you her photograph?" to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from him to go away.' "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' cigar and let me expound." Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house call for it in person on Monday morning.' Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me them?" you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, wedding?" Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or conclusions. time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "Yes." allusion to a rat. has little to do with my story." say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was "And Miss Sutherland?" It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him Pope's Court. leave you to your papers for a little." met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "I don't believe it." clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of and I shall be with you presently." the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the families. Now for the facts. arrangements." "Which are?" "But who is he?" 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." were new raised from a basin. "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "But how?" central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." the ceiling. went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, to-morrow." family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private have one." Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes which I could not give. He asked for Alice. this remarkable episode. had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "'You cannot say what it was?' Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very your equipment. down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a threw himself down with his face to the pillow. relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "Imitated." disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "I will do it." "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from whereabouts. over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of better in every way that they should make their position a little "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done touch that coronet?' the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the which our visitor detailed to us. "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" should be taken.' "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" think, you have already met." to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a Holmes' thin, eager face. "Perhaps I have." weary and pale-looking. You can understand that this register and diary may implicate British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "And what did you learn from him?" Holmes." the date of his supposed suicide." and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "Seven!" I answered. astonishment. in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a depend upon your compliance." "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "Your presence might be invaluable." the matter?" "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the developed." His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a page at http://pglaf.org copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a you, my dear young lady?' difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or other, as fresh and trim as possible. insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "Yesterday." weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he swore that no one else had been in the front room during the from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, thin legs towards the fire. "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. of them has the shutters up.' colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open chair. "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a which are rolled in Rotterdam." "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink asked. "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She and the whole place is in a blaze." "Precisely so. But how--" 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and case before our client came into the room." Henry Baker is a member." companion. unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on morning." conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." think that any burglar could have done. hand, madam?" it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "What steps will you take?" I asked. building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there cup of tea. and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it obstinate." "But you were on a friendly footing?" is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I stammered. mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "Which are?" exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. tell them apart.' disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or delirious. face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting existence." had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "My private note-paper." "Yes." the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "How can you tell that?" 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by that I am arrested." of your young ladies.' meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "But how could you guess what the motive was?" only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, she to prove their authenticity?" said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has mysterious business." "I cannot tell." instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but individual and becomes the badge of a society." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic she to prove their authenticity?" her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "Who by?" for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "Absolutely none." unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the said he. excitement. "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "Then, how do you know?" I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "And Miss Sutherland?" the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did the driver. had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly here and I will read it to you: The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in views." hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, house for five minutes.' heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "She walked into the breakfast-room." "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it if only as a check to my own memory." mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch