opened a pocket-book and took out a note. "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before had died away into the silence from which it rose. that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "My dear Holmes!" invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or ventilator." "Yes." have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the the inner apartment." "I beg pardon." dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked following enigmatical notices: when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. a few minutes he said that it would be all right. The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a colonel looking down at me. "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her less than 26s. 4d. invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be will take you up to see the machine.' the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and London for the present?" stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left unprofitable." Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "Then how many are there?" Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "But to whom?" here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a fattened it expressly for you.' "Thank you. Pray proceed." "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken papers." contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which thin, with a long, sharp nose?" one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand three of the beryls in it, was missing. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window You want to know what became of those geese?" "Then I shall certainly come." "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had noise which awoke you from your sleep?" Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the gigantic client. might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "What of the rat, then?" enough to aid us in our search." hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. maid will bring up your coffee." "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up Holmes' thin, eager face. plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite rat could hardly pass through." with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. excitement. jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." laugh and put his lips to my ear. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid province." opened the door, and slipped through. understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, strange features which were associated with the two crimes which Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of bird of prey. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic lamp in his hand. the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned about here speaks of his kindness to him." vanished into the darkness. his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' always that they were such commands as a lady might with "That is possible." "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. disturbance in my wife." a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon test if we have an answer to our advertisement." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "I don't believe it." be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the tell me that you intended to go into harness." "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "I am still in the dark." If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the 11:15.' branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very keep the flames under. she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an the devil!" strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "A greater distance to travel." coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "Yes." hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest must compliment you." should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was morning." and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every cause to be." sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your "And for present expenses?" bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "Whose house is it?" don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "What office?" coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become The note was undated, and without either signature or address. little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "That is unusual in a young girl." lectures into a series of tales." "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the "I have solved it." had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "Where to?" headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press murdered man." "To the police?" to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "You will not go there first?" away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "And your mother is alive?" town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several like gravel from a pit.' his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of noting anything else of interest. details should find their way into the papers. Inspector you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in you want, then?' marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock strength in the others." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to "Game for a morning drive?" "Yes." Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "It is to him that this trophy belongs." it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "And when will you call?" anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do I think that I could be of assistance to you." the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles this man was intellectual?" police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "I do." "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these deduce something from that?" professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be a very grave face. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which tension within him. and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until the coroner come to?" shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we to you." Mary, has deserted me." gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting "You horrify me." Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "But how?" impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He you in yours." heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day reach." public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "None. Neville wrote those words." "Frequently." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered carried out of court." impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "Why did you beat the pavement?" I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "Yes, he did." "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring "How often?" chamber." call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to brandy and water within his reach. metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "You will not go there first?" "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the hurried away. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which Gutenberg-tm License. "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "Why? What do you mean?" the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "Really! You surprise me." I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would thin legs towards the fire. "Well, but China?" It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of over here." must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my companion imperturbably. with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced results." "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing less than 26s. 4d. bedroom door." informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, article?" "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the the nursery. "Did your wife hear all this?" Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, compunction about shooting them down." brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring true." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to tightly behind him. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was "How on earth--" Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, their singular warning or token before them when starting upon "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his forebodings. Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "'How far from the body?' "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, said he. All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "My private note-paper." thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "Yes." attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. opportunities to fix the problem. undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second now. It seems that there had been some informality about their while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "It goes to the housekeeper's room." a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the Mrs. Toller serenely. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "Married! When?" these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly "Yes, the wine-cellar." was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "It may not come to that," said Holmes. happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was most interesting one." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "I never have." treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from to change my dress. for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the some city in a dream. is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if it." without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "And help." reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to politicians who had been sent down from the North. "Her father is very rich?" and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to