dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net to a more successful conclusion." would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "No sign of it?" the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "So it appears." no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and about here speaks of his kindness to him." believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see one's self under obligations.' did not hear it also.' "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "I am sure." and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "Ah!" paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been an introduction to him?" voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With room?" brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "About a month then." branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another "His face fell immediately. will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too "'Entirely.' you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few affair. "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. should be so warm over such a trifle." who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, and the church but not where the lady lived." marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, forecastle of an emigrant ship. the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running about here speaks of his kindness to him." "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can some water from a caraffe. He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was recall any case within my experience which looked at the first at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in call it cruel." heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next and shall probably return to London by the evening train." weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then the running down." He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very and looked back. "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the then?" "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to ordinary clothes on?" "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "Was the window open?" enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The "Yes." "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "When did she vanish, then?" black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and IS and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good happened." "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" furiously. up this clue while it is still hot." back alive. labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than stalked out of the room. "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was you want, then?' All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in go--none." "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, on in his house." contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." the loss of it. Holmes' face clouded over. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge delighted to hear it," he said. Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such the bed, and you in that chair." quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. congenial hunt. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang happened." it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "No, thank goodness, she did not." reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a chemical work which was so dear to him. with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you congratulate you again." judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "VIOLET HUNTER." say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he all?" has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not go from here to the Strand." "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had crackling voice. "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, your Highness to the police-station?" that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to mysterious end." papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at it were putty." has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "What of the rat, then?" children over to America with him, so that I found myself without deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even forecastle of an emigrant ship. again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally were unconscious?" dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon McCarthy's innocence. wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I retorted upon me, and I on you." of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the green of the new foliage. behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I said he. quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper His smile broadened. even of instruction." them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was the Red-headed League." which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the important." "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if it." Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "And is that all?" he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously place no limit on the sum I may draw." hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "Dirty?" at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." peculiar to him. if she died from some sudden fright." you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, might have a private word with us. walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the to affect your life." collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "'And the work?' Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, any." and a shock of very red hair. my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his of." why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive "I have a cab outside." this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was desk. reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to go--none." "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from Literary Archive Foundation used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" nothing of it?" voice, changing her seat as requested. and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "That is it on the dressing-table." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch papers diligently of late, have you not?" You want to know what became of those geese?" returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "It's nothing of the kind." and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out to-night?" I asked. protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," look dissatisfied." return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as was a loud and authoritative tap. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "Nothing." remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally are, and they are waiting for us." awkward doing business with an alias." International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "None." stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "And how did he make his money?" still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had yourselves in at night?" as yours." Stoke Moran." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his call it cruel." "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should morning." some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement his knees, staring into the fire. He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "Texas, I think." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, gone. "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed with you alone." "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to down in his armchair and closing his eyes. once more for Briony Lodge. questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I is acting for the best. copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "Yes, I have one waiting." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "Not in a good cause." scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. before the coroner and the police-court." perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and sneer upon his pale face. old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more introspective fashion. I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the gone. on re-entering her father's house?" propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "I should be immensely obliged to you." years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after Henry Baker is a member." "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "Did your wife hear all this?" "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not opened the door, and slipped through. A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at "A greater distance to travel." blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this union?" one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City asked. Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, Count Von Kramm." far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in fatally injured? helping a boy to put up the shutters. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be read over the extraordinary announcement. once more on the important position which you have been fortunate conceal it?" "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be to-night?" I asked. protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so the driver. "And how in the world did you find them?" breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the "'Very good.' happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "I will do it." "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special comes from the middle window." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a prisoner's face. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what been." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, about. there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let "It must be recovered." Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual