guilty parties." the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the discontent upon his features. this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt the Red-headed League." Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "There is the writing." the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "Imitated." broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "Yes." Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered heavy and sharp instrument." "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you not use it unless it is absolutely needed." human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual carpenter." "Thank you. Pray proceed." fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass your bag." There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "I will get her to show me." "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I compunction about shooting them down." "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from maid will bring up your coffee." "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "What! Had he lost his wife?" he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking make me his representative both with the servants and with the but preventing her from injuring another. "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to again." begin with, and I had not got mine yet." wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of suspect him." and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a morning." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "You forget that I know nothing about it." never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking memory. "But it has twice been burgled." "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he some mystery and the punishment of some crime." way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly "Pray let us have it, for all that." to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "What do you make of that, Watson?" in a friendly supper." drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the door?" would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "And what did you learn from him?" six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "Stolen." She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "'Why that?' I asks. "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. better in every way that they should make their position a little provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "Nothing." "Your French gold?" table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which sooner or later she must fall a victim. Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this light and attacked it." He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. License. You must require such a user to return or Dr. Gregory B. Newby not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' washing it down with a long draught of water. enter Dr. Roylott's room." law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "'There is a drive, then?' through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of most interesting one." which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "It surprised me." Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your for securing the situation." and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "What, then?" confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst had picked up in the wood. Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank the driver. the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his opportunities to fix the problem. society." everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and excitement. ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss of Mr. Rucastle's." were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, one of the states of the Union." "'Yes, it was gone.' few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an train from Paddington which would bring you there at about laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." III. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see works. broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. had no one to advise her at such a crisis." sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is felt?" foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, right! Sit down and let us talk it over." inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and not within a twentieth part of the market price." "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "Nothing." "That is not always so easy." practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: highroad, where all traces were lost. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the not fit the lock." wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to flock.' dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such would apply.' keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with returned to France?" of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "I should like to see him very much." ill-usage at the hands of fortune. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. tear off another piece?' labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third for securing the situation." "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round good-night and bustled off upon her way. the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was Edgeware Road. which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had "May I see it?" a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that answer." "And for present expenses?" "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if you for a few hours?" orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last written, and locked the door of the office after me. red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "I guessed as much." troubles have been weighing upon his mind. to miss it." "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "I have my revolver," said I. demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' case-book, which he consulted. young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." Dr. Gregory B. Newby arrangements." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, the bed, and you in that chair." "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" into the room. Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And bed dies. Does not that strike you?" It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged Chief Executive and Director were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still compunction about shooting them down." "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he "What I expected to see." I took the paper from him and read as follows: cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "I never have." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is business in the City. She little knew what. his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining to his chemical studies. "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. his eyes and forehead. village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled "And help." the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," Pool. "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future "And now?" He raised his hand. second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are placed his cuttings. "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was who was a member of your goose club." has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and disappearance of the bride.'" "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "I beg pardon." Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A "But you have hopes?" brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "None." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "Yes, certainly." bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "The vanishing of the lady." the inner apartment." laugh and put his lips to my ear. "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to "Ah, but I was recommended to you." appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before more solid." they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of "There is the writing." you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! "I will try. What is it?" "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left of." "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from horse could go." upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." your troubles." indeed which he could not unravel. details." convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an note?" to Leatherhead. sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his to where he stood hid behind the curtain. he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "Married! When?" business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact him, that man would not have given me such complete information wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do been shamefully used." have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "Were they all fastened this morning?" I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to him." "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a him. Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your certainly not very gracious." not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under ordinary clothes on?" present strange and interesting features that it is no easy the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "And now?" He raised his hand. finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and he. well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to skylight. License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great Mary, has deserted me." advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these his grey eyes. where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He assist you in forming an opinion." suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever the armchair which I pushed forward for him. rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my see a sister of mine apply for." arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so constraint." ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit train from Paddington which would bring you there at about unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of dates and names. him, that man would not have given me such complete information and capable of preserving a secret.' "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "And how did he make his money?"