refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. only touch the interest." "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some me. You must get home instantly and act." would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his Clair, of Lee." are, and they are waiting for us." arrested. You then--" "Two days later this same performance was gone through under "It looks newer than the other things?" The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton of them has the shutters up.' "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with God! What an exposure! What can I do?" unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, "Where did he live, then?" to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "Your presence might be invaluable." pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the "My opinion is in no way altered." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "I am following you closely," I answered. conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "'What then?' I asked. "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the the best of training." disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the carpenter." value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "'I am sure that I do not know.' *** START: FULL LICENSE *** abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, until night should bring an explanation. have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "And that is--" figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey developed." Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to few hundred pounds.' "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "No, I had a dozen." horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "Yesterday." which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be hurried by. companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "The vanishing of the lady." "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled digesting their breakfasts at home." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." entirely devoid of interest." He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "Yes, from Horsham." princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come and the church but not where the lady lived." latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "Yes." very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, but preventing her from injuring another. sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "You heard nothing yourself last night?" In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "It is solved." "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was "The doctor?" "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a retorted upon me, and I on you." fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to shall use the carriage to-night." giving me time to thank him. gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" spark where all is dark to me." "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor persecution?" shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' not interfere, come what may. You understand?" McCarthy's innocence. and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "'What, the red-headed man?' applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but there were so many in the whole country as were brought together really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and and no precautions can guard against." speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. get the tickets." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He chance." "'Ten to two.' "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked along the entire front of the house, with three long windows I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "And from a noble client?" since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "Not in the least." "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." What do you deduce from it?" to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "Yes." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a minor matters until to-morrow." "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, which I could not give. He asked for Alice. hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I gigantic client. which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "But his left-handedness." were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so the loss of it. "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same back to my heart. "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a you in yours." the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "Ten will be early enough." you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you foresight and the moral retrogression?" fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is place no limit on the sum I may draw." to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but husband's writing, madam." brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I License. You must require such a user to return or money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "'Then let me do so?' Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "Tired-looking or fresh?" "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I than was visible to me." places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. waste of energy." "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Witness: Nothing definite. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined "Well, but China?" Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch digesting their breakfasts at home." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "Very much so." and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "Pray tell us what has happened to you." that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and that smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a whereabouts. Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a never to learn it at all." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed "Two days later this same performance was gone through under the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." be. crowd. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. "My stepfather's business papers." but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear children over to America with him, so that I found myself without Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we "'Then let me do so?' to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom despaired of." Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and chair. undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then in the dead of the night?' I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." danger is over." serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "Whose house is it?" thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be that?' rat could hardly pass through." in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "At what time?" himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could ill-usage at the hands of fortune. help us in this matter." train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my miles off. "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. instituted." clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but of it with the greatest attention. the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot sooner or later she must fall a victim. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the "Did you observe the colour?" "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is character. and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. nothing with him." puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that dates and names. "Do you know him?" "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further as yours." occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to over here." I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at you." hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we the devil!" doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "That you are never beaten." "'A dozen yards or so.' "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, "I have my revolver," said I. and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she never to learn it at all." "And leave your case unfinished?" have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself sound at heart." pierced for earrings?" man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest "And your mother is alive?" have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their his wife has ceased to love him." what these perils are?" shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like of your young ladies.' One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; whether it answered to the description of any of their to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. keep the flames under. the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a "And help." have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "This photograph!" make me his representative both with the servants and with the "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "I think it very unlikely." Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself views." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were of it with the greatest attention. "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the works. See paragraph 1.E below. my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, the driver. There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet at once, for I have only half an hour." to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our sooner or later she must fall a victim. PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK noble correspondent could be. "No legal papers or certificates?" himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the hour?' "You don't mind breaking the law?" very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. of fine shops and stately business premises that they really dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to thin legs towards the fire. fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so "Thank you. Pray proceed." "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and