"And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his careless servant girl?" "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the one or two very singular points about this room. For example, hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in outside." shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "Precisely." Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "Yes." "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." redistribution. "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until interest. They are important, you understand, without being closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "Certainly." eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be annoyance, but no jest. "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, window when the police appeared." out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of good for you to do.' "You are certainly joking, Holmes." "They are typewritten," I remarked. "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "She will not sell." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have Foundation "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's do.' "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. to-night?' "I cannot imagine." would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest leaning back in his chair. impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been disappearance of these gems?" the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "'As governess?' grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted a good hundred miles off by now." "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the could not have written that. It is the German who is so metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole nonsense.' Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness weary and pale-looking. we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the have an American origin." which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, along the entire front of the house, with three long windows it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of Gutenberg-tm License. order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that round with crates and massive boxes. which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a discontent upon his features. point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "Thank you. And your address?" breakfast?" "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "Yes, sir." like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but visitors." It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "I assure you that I am in your hands." frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "Nearly eleven." page at http://pglaf.org me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming papers." cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my Does that suggest anything?" "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was look dissatisfied." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "Never." you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in main points of my analysis." my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the the tragedy. the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. during that time.' him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." my former friend and companion. charge against him will break down." "By train from Waterloo." should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she presented more singular features than that which was associated skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City thin, with a long, sharp nose?" and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. companion. two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite occupations.' He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he the child." we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt observed. prison!" however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it more terrible than the truth. hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming this as likely?" even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide front of me. "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of comes from the middle window." very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the into the room. himself to tell his story. what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to I shall communicate with you." "What office?" mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "Certainly." hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "In the cells." see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter investigation." "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be of campaign. She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "Well, some hundreds of times." cost them two and thirty pounds." father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the late!' conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "I do." "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was seven miles from Eyford Station.' to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: thin legs towards the fire. has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There asked. "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly go--none." "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "I cannot imagine." "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "I cannot tell." foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous o'clock is it?" myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "You have compromised yourself seriously." "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while was already answered. "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for unprecedented a position." absorbing." "It is very kind of you." The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "There is the writing." desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a is acting for the best. business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything ourselves in the office." a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, both be extremely obliged.' through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the against a man in the prime of life?" was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. did not hear it also.' something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "Nearly eleven." which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at of the efforts of the United States government and of the better he died? on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our face and glided from the room. paper in the air. fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, placed his cuttings. "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be Project Gutenberg-tm works. the side-table." case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in as yours." written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "Never to return." of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out "On Monday." the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than room?" adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "'And the work?' "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my felt?" to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. at a side door. Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" that he will be back before evening." our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "Yes." street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have think that he is innocent?" Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who he. already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat strong and stiff." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given and laid it on the table. and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the felt the room to be a little close.' a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' and capable of preserving a secret.' "How are you getting on?" He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin again." end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of is," said he presently: sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "Who by?" temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the floor. "You will not go there first?" hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little and inquire as to the address." When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window His name is Francis Prosper." even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced quick march!" attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, three of the beryls in it, was missing. reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner the coroner come to?" you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "'Yes.' insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I village inn over there?" had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these one which it was hard to resist. you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a companion imperturbably. which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have purpose of examination. were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "Was your sister dressed?" time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most locked. and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "A call for help, you thought?" and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "Do you go out much in society?" Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted his fortune, and I went back to pa. "No." "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have "'What are you doing there?' he asked. "How often?" "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, delighted to hear it," he said. "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "In answer to an advertisement." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the the date of his supposed suicide." room. "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of "I know where it is." income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I for securing the situation." imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then "Frequently." harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I have been better. It is all right." too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." that I am arrested." following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a standing smiling on the door-step. in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now."