"The rest you will leave in our hands." floor. Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him II. took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant "I should wish to." thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of The note was undated, and without either signature or address. former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his sake, don't!" and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the you?' frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "You forget that I know nothing about it." Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was made him keep the appointment." finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when lost his Christmas dinner." Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, country, and eventually married, without anyone having a vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and o'clock is it?" in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man seven miles from Eyford Station.' "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "My private note-paper." them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able woven round him. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "'I am sure that I do not know.' from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal populous neighbourhood." "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could which our visitor detailed to us. come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "Never." say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "You horrify me." dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for For additional contact information: utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. in this note: returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect little trying to do so much typewriting?" stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have questionable one." Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "You think that he is dead?" The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily giving me time to thank him. association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "No bad?" one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of details should find their way into the papers. Inspector Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad outbreak?" "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his beyond words. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was soul! here is her carriage at the door." obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "It is solved." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." friends, not even his own brother. "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "My dear Holmes!" seen the man in the road." took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any Foundation Pope's Court. "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, and inquire as to the address." "Where, then?" presented which may be striking and bizarre without being such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney "By all means." "A greater distance to travel." self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. noise which awoke you from your sleep?" the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the my room." There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made pictures, libraries, or plate. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in purpose of examination. gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "And why?" course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had again before evening." after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "He disappeared so suddenly." "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are this as likely?" him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "None." "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the future lives." "Stoke Moran?" said he. "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of introspective fashion. "Have you her photograph?" "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty outside." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was certainly do as you advise." fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" is now desirous of getting those letters back." bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "I say it is." ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. woven round him. "I guessed as much." "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap our word." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "But we can't all be." "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you Sutherland?" We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson case before our client came into the room." "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office several quiet little villages up there." police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, you came in." we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "And on what day did he meet his death?" fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of "And what then?" Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the next day. "How did you trace it, then?" throat." my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely you give your casting vote to?" the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "You did not overhear what they said?" fact, we may call it conclusive." "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "Yes." Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as has little to do with my story." over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem Project Gutenberg-tm works. accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she ways of our fellow-men." him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to handed it to him. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and which we had just quitted. unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" to change my dress. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most if she died from some sudden fright." figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had laugh and put his lips to my ear. "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" place no limit on the sum I may draw." vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, most important business. It is probable that he will be away all this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was fact, we may call it conclusive." "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' business in the City. She little knew what. passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it upon the white wrist. "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of been with you?" gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "I will do it." was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight cup of tea. As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "The decline of his fortunes, then?" snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two and looked back. http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "And what did you learn from him?" murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" what do you think they found in the pockets?" "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that it." Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the should be taken.' very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon kindly on the shoulder. "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." and the whole place is in a blaze." propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of morning." received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "Holmes, the busybody!" "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "I think it very unlikely." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "You think that he is dead?" endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. sufficient punishment." examination of the premises, but without finding anything which "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. "And I." arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes with her." it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was such person." or in danger--" quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every brandy and water within his reach. the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous strength." outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, his forehead." horse could go." "It came here." "What! Had he lost his wife?" over his head with a sweet womanly caress. opened a pocket-book and took out a note. "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "Why, it's a dummy," said he. us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "It is very clear." of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." second window is the one that I jumped from." "What, then, did Peterson do?" from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. quite distinctive." roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the nice household for a young lady." you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "Your presence might be invaluable." listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "And Irene Adler?" are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" "Very. But will he see it?" twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could detained." morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "So I have heard." ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a other means.' to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave congenial hunt. "That is unusual in a young girl." but preventing her from injuring another. Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness Gutenberg-tm License. in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "Which surely he restored to their owner?" tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "One of his hands." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking I am not easy in my mind about them." completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "Precisely so. But how--" he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of You can understand that this register and diary may implicate incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. thought that she would have been so carried away." "It certainly sounds feasible." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the bird I ate is country bred." presented more singular features than that which was associated submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before companion imperturbably.