or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my one or two very singular points about this room. For example, hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, walking." "To ruin me." A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue entirely lost his self-respect." As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the ready to-morrow?' We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before strength of mind to control. "What have you to say now?" himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest depend upon my doing so.' seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards criminal. We have already had experience of such." it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may better in every way that they should make their position a little at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but "It is possible." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "No good news?" understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "My Mary? Impossible!" "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which "I shall most certainly do so." back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very returning from some small jollification and was making his way "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took shaken than I had ever seen him. John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this be.' his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I call the police, let the police find what they can.' "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of derbies." "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes IS the coronet in his hands?" He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if suddenly upon us." unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there fear." a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "Will you go?" and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was here and I will read it to you: and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and From what you have told me I think that it is possible that he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the over here." time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the and wait." "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was digesting their breakfasts at home." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive burst out into a roar of laughter. Count Von Kramm." It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up "I cannot as yet see any connection." have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you dear old homesteads?" Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "And Irene Adler?" the bed, and you in that chair." room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the triumphant cloud from his cigarette. "No, thank goodness, she did not." ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss of your young ladies.' inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I "How about poison?" "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the said I. look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was "The King of Scandinavia." woman." multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, not come at once?" jewels which you have stolen?' "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a shag which I had seen upon the previous night. travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "'Oh, no.' clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "Nothing." two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands all-comprehensive glances. with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I the room while you explain this matter?" glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with leaning back in his chair. before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is the house with me." shoulder; "he's all right." it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "What is it, then--a fire?" had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in Pope's Court, Fleet Street." "It was a confession," I ejaculated. of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "I have hopes." think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "It's nothing of the kind." "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. yourselves in at night?" "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "I guessed as much." gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "Now, then, what's the last entry?" huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very bled considerably." week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." But Holmes shook his head gravely. "No, I am descending." "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "Not social, then?" him to go away.' ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty I leave." Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose walking." matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "And I to find an enemy." "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four tail." defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until 11:15.' has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His chamber." could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining to go into your room and bar your shutters?" time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique test if we have an answer to our advertisement." companion imperturbably. lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my minor matters until to-morrow." Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and chamber." red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "It looks newer than the other things?" widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad him to be an active member of the medical profession." which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the conclusions. broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I becomes even more simple." "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "Pray do so." The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "You heard nothing yourself last night?" Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the mystery." doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." Lestrade of Scotland Yard." Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions as noiselessly as she had come. situation." With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all your equipment. "You are hungry," I remarked. a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. clanging. Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, silent! Oh, he will be silent!' thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the plantation.' a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to second window is the one that I jumped from." brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand "But his left-handedness." "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter best detective that ever lived. exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that lips." "And how in the world did you find them?" his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. said he, "my real name is James Ryder." 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I gbnewby@pglaf.org there was no need for father to know." The events in question occurred in the early days of my something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "But what is it you wish?" "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very all that?" Chief Executive and Director at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy was not a bird to be seen there. "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his easy-going way." is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the correct than the official force." makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the think that any burglar could have done. she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' to where he stood hid behind the curtain. only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But looking up at the numbers of the houses." Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely chance." open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a crowd. "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue little adventures." earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "It was." lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a chance at all." severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for so far?" mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to was not a bird to be seen there. her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their imbecility!" he cried. "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest an introduction to him?" attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "It is a murder, then?" International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make straightened it out again. envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "But who is he?" 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "He slept on the premises." rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and through." Young McCarthy must be got off, however." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as "Were they all fastened this morning?" them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where ventilator." best detective that ever lived. really the only notable feature about the thing." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a to a light-house. cost them two and thirty pounds." once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black the matter." quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it mystery may be cleared along those lines." "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but have got?" "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "'Then let me do so?' "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most companion. Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is him. has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort 'please.'" bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot frequently gained my first real insight into the character of ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I you." papers diligently of late, have you not?" discontent upon his features. "Come in!" said he. particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day singular points about the case. What did the police think of the WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. outsides of the windows. is so. I know all about McCarthy." little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "The Coroner: What do you mean? "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City are windows in it, of course?" from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune "Stolen, then." tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than works. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he