"Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for who was a member of your goose club." lost his Christmas dinner." that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "Holmes, the busybody!" of Fenchurch Street." "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of should be taken.' in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "Yes, the wine-cellar." assist you in forming an opinion." springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding little adventures." fasten all the windows?" entirely lost his self-respect." the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe a good hundred miles off by now." "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' green of the new foliage. "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "'Is purely nominal.' "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? forehead. the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. Sutherland. into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "Then you may be so with me." I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second shoulder. All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a "Was there a secret marriage?" inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have "On Monday." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "Then, as to money?" the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, he died? and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one the loss of it. indiscretion." know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light his wife has ceased to love him." vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they his grey eyes. "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the night.' said he. Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "Then you may be so with me." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "Witness: Nothing definite. back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "Yes, that is the Crown." "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she Holmes' room. "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "None." unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "I am sure." seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we the Red-headed League." eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such this man was intellectual?" families. Now for the facts. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone ceremony." play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in dramatic, in fact." all?" profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, Arthur Conan Doyle begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk and prosperity to your house. Good-night." the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "It is solved." been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. me upon any point which I do not make clear." disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out served to weaken the effect. closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "Why, what do you mean?" nothing with him." he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman of Mr. Rucastle's." "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my you in yours." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so stepfather?" woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to more terrible than the truth. "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal distinguish the words: I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' weighed down with some great anxiety. produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case should be so warm over such a trifle." undoubtedly my uncle's." that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped rat could hardly pass through." the general public were present, then?" itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, Watson," he said cordially. "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been writers could invent nothing more crude." "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has characteristics, but those are the more obvious." "'I have heard so.' another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief of receipt of the work. colour had been driven from his face. "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a tightly behind him. "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "Then you may entirely rely on me." to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots and inquire as to the address." "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she tell me that you intended to go into harness." cigars in the box." and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the pity, because in other respects you would really have done very heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "Just look it up, then." "I will, Miss Turner." "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and if only as a check to my own memory." "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had companion. very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept horse could go." "I shall be delighted." huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the was once confined in the cab my mission was practically The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of views." DAMAGE. with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the Munro.' "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab about here speaks of his kindness to him." Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "Yes." "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well think you a quite exceptional woman." mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through when you have done it." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "'I have already given you my word.' dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "It is a murder, then?" "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "Bought." "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked bachelor.' "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very DAMAGE. unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "That was it, sir." purpose equally well?" chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their "From his hat?" year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his Holmes. to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. fluttered off among the others. "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily Sutherland. Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting his grey eyes. hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" strong reason behind." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "Then you may entirely rely on me." informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I what these perils are?" his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see recover the gem." Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and the inner apartment." myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very did not hear it also.' To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from chill to my heart. "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to the one as in the other." "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did least a fellow-countryman. "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, paper in the air. "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a whereabouts. dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' not come at once?" means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses examine." gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of gone. the morning and make my own way in the world.' "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed and it need not interfere very much with one's other telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "And when will you call?" chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could occupations.' on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "Which surely he restored to their owner?" said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "Could he throw no light?" I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "The murder was done with it." Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." generous with you in money matters.' "The murder was done with it." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor when your master had gone out." plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of ceremony." of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "I will not look." platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is "Never." success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to quite distinctive." he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue "Entirely." that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his laugh and put his lips to my ear. "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "It must be recovered." seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a o'clock is it?" have an American origin." "I see no marks." Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "And how did you find out?" "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third lost nothing by them." to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she floor. "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." "Absolutely none." hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided his grey eyes. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden "You will not go there first?" coat-tails." isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." in his power. "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "'Yes, it was gone.' varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily despair." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' without a word or a look. little trying to do so much typewriting?" "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "Her father is very rich?" giving me time to thank him. pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "Not yet." "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "Why? What do you mean?" wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' than to us. hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of the bottom.' and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "And I to find an enemy." the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of recover the gem."