head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I Project Gutenberg-tm works. the Red-headed League." "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not have been better. It is all right." felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. of your young ladies.' geese which you supplied to the Alpha." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. "I do." in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that horse could go." "And how did you verify them?" right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation I leave." and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper have been better. It is all right." eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. voice. "'Yes, it was gone.' "'It is locked up,' I answered. "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue observed. three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and both be extremely obliged.' look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive disappearance of the bride.'" fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "Of what?" "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand "I guessed as much." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "So I have heard." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "And why?" mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "I say that I have solved it." walking." Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through ventilator." and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "What of the rat, then?" "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our that before taking the final step I should like to submit the me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "Texas, I think." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he to-night." he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "The Coroner: What do you mean? was feeling which was the fattest.' up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the "No bad?" "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you interests were the same as his." however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the success. named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is man. I know him from the photograph." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I was already answered. "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal this man was intellectual?" promised to bring home. of this gang." "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain thirty. elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, ways including including checks, online payments and credit card woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It singular points about the case. What did the police think of the leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "It surprised me." bed dies. Does not that strike you?" works. See paragraph 1.E below. lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted instincts rose up against that laugh. George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but which it had come upon my father." "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a and looked back. customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that my little problems." "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "'It is locked up,' I answered. useful material for showing traces. The double line a little the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I be best to do. homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I place, I think that there is good ground to think that the "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" me, and I could not think that his explanation of the intrusion of other matters." pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have digesting their breakfasts at home." the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. "ARAT," I read. way in everything. so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I mysterious business." be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow was not a bird to be seen there. "It may not come to that," said Holmes. "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the writers could invent nothing more crude." with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "It missed him, then?" "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was habit of advancing money.' "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there ways including including checks, online payments and credit card soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence was a perfect sample of the class. the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis heavily into it. "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet Mary, has deserted me." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by place no limit on the sum I may draw." about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me breakfast." King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I hair?' about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." and capable of preserving a secret.' a little more before I quite committed myself. time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's hour?' "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': she might be summoned. "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "Then how many are there?" the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "And now?" He raised his hand. "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco pierced for earrings?" dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely with frightened eyes at his accuser. We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for said he. "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg comes from the middle window." rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may room. really the only notable feature about the thing." "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I to a more successful conclusion." abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "My photograph." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "And leave your case unfinished?" course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were to have been novel and of interest." is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." asked with his eyes open. "I have seen the police." gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "But your client--" after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, swore that no one else had been in the front room during the very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in shall not find me ungrateful." himself to tell his story. in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. "'And the work?' drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the something of him before." "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "Could he throw no light?" handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its and have this put in the evening papers." her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, It may be so in this case, also." over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his is now desirous of getting those letters back." recover the gem." bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of "You were travelling in the States?" some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "'Never,' said I. is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a be best to do. rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I "Won't it ring?" in the dead of the night?' "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "Your sister is dead, then?" look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "In the cells." delirious. And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover handed it to him. there!' Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my manager. collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge "Were they all fastened this morning?" easy-going way." aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper are, I think, all that we need." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with was a perfect sample of the class. "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness "'A dozen yards or so.' Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of works. was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" may have an influence upon European history." the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it I think that I could be of assistance to you." "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual late!' and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. had this final quarrel? make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you were unconscious?" States. recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts questionable one." innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the one or two very singular points about this room. For example, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said public press." think you a quite exceptional woman." all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper me what he had done with the three missing stones. again before evening." grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper carried out of court." which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." round and wave him away like that.'