"Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be with you alone." "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The Again Holmes raved in the air. the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we events, Mr. Windibank!" Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in like that before?" make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, call the police, let the police find what they can.' be.' these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, man. I know him from the photograph." side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in newspaper selections." "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking as he folded up the epistle. be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "'Quite sure, dad.' can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "He said that you could solve anything." "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "But to whom?" my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building gone. rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "Then I am your man." overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said roused himself from his reverie. wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, You can understand that this register and diary may implicate "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. less than 26s. 4d. eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside desk. arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given Does that suggest anything?" deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I child?' "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his useful material for showing traces. The double line a little and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally information in his hands the value of which he did not himself moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. "Did your wife hear all this?" "In which, sir?" at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered that I am arrested." bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "Yes, that is the Crown." following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing tension within him. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "It is half-past ten now." fled together." was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped hurried by. which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, and the whole place is in a blaze." active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. throat." black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "That is not always so easy." "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate derbies." Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. III. which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "No, distinctly professional." married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "Texas, I think." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, in a friendly supper." "That is not always so easy." which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast quickly through a disagreeable task. the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "To an end?" sentimental considerations in the background which would induce street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that beyond words. having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet that he will be back before evening." "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the views." ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There here." "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. more terrible than the truth. me. You must get home instantly and act." five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." your most interesting statement." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He good-night and bustled off upon her way. Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the in his hands." Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "But who is he?" - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and swore that no one else had been in the front room during the without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "What have you done?" asked Holmes. may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "'Certainly not. But why?' He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, had no one to advise her at such a crisis." the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the suddenly upon us." "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The as he remarks, very much against the son." swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "The Coroner: What do you mean? at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the this unhappy family?" a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "They are typewritten," I remarked. shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "He is dead," cried several voices. brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug him to be an active member of the medical profession." quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "One horse?" interjected Holmes. "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" papers." "You think so, too?" overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP empty. "But how?" card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "There are none." gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No conduct the inquiry." master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular the window, rose as we entered. passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "A client, then?" Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of the Red-headed League." great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That had formerly been in part my own. James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy advice." afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "One horse?" interjected Holmes. the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big the so-precious time, but come!' He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be "In heaven's name, what for?" "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been "I beg pardon." "But how did you gain them?" "'Most admirably.' vanished into the darkness. test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 occupations.' "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "Because he was handy and would come cheap." woven round him. was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "And what did you learn from him?" that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the away in different directions, and I went off to make my own what is your own theory as to what took place?" glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor down in his armchair and closing his eyes. characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set there was no need for father to know." out." orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "Not him." disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "That is it on the dressing-table." "'Stolen!' he cried. when you have done it." gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "'Certainly not.' 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm was once confined in the cab my mission was practically a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "Yes." which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in "Do you go out much in society?" But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the fish-monger and a tide-waiter." Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle married her." five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying train from Paddington which would bring you there at about the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious sake, don't!" you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon and prosperity to your house. Good-night." You can understand that this register and diary may implicate comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "What will you say?" "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any the iron safe, which he closed upon it. that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "No, distinctly professional." spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white your Highness to the police-station?" been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I The police have openly confessed that they can at present make into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "Not him." "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found unprecedented a position." forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the generous with you in money matters.' "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "'Is purely nominal.' Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I husband's writing, madam." agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "Stoke Moran?" said he. wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "How did you deduce the select?" 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into papers diligently of late, have you not?" adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room are windows in it, of course?" which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the to-night's adventure." and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot get her out of the way." his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who that you wished to speak to me?' bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. to a more successful conclusion." The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic Have you good authority for what you say?" at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who your bag." started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "And who is her maid?" jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "I think that it is very probable." hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "'It is locked up,' I answered. had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to with frightened eyes at his accuser. whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "Do you know him?" "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the least a most suspicious remark." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE said he, "my real name is James Ryder." pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "He slept on the premises." over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "He disappeared so suddenly." he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had true." fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just might have a private word with us. pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must once more. "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "Then I do not see the point." essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand