Sutherland?" "Yes." dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from seen the man in the road." stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "Where to?" colour had been driven from his face. several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "I cannot tell." my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered ago." in your London, you will know that the office of the company is reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual south, for the country is more deserted there." "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he conclusions. heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "'Certainly not.' bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "Yes, only one." typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business to affect your life." "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that it? Did I buy the geese off you?" premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, "I never have." are, I think, all that we need." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "A greater distance to travel." him to be an active member of the medical profession." License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "No, distinctly professional." electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, "Did you become engaged then?" abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who tear off another piece?' "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, guilty one." which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "No, I think that I'll take it." the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, if only as a check to my own memory." A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "That was it, sir." indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "If I can be of use." The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but outbreak?" "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "What have you to say now?" this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the writers could invent nothing more crude." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his hand, madam?" foot. his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the was once confined in the cab my mission was practically which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy again." returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, simple cases which are so extremely difficult." mystery!" nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now "No." "Nothing." pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "'Is 4 pounds a week.' seen the man in the road." "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. the coroner come to?" "Perhaps we may make them less so." workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and along the entire front of the house, with three long windows that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "What are they?" and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK with some details as to your case." to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. fat-encircled eyes. we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to lost nothing by them." "It surprised me." from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, happened." of the way of danger. that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's Miss Holder?" Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With and your relations to her." assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried she slowly sank and died without having recovered her dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. young Openshaw's." home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "Did you become engaged then?" bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last geese which you supplied to the Alpha." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "No, my brougham is waiting." burst into a hearty fit of laughter. matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He true." on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to served to weaken the effect. I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his colonel looking down at me. struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "I should like to see him very much." "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "Come in!" said he. prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched to have been novel and of interest." little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering newspaper selections." common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found shall use the carriage to-night." some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most silent! Oh, he will be silent!' dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached again before evening." "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Murdered?" up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "Oh, fresh and glossy." will not take me long to tell. his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the like gravel from a pit.' winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "Game for a morning drive?" and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine absolutely follow my advice in every respect." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at and inquire as to the address." "None. Neville wrote those words." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father extraordinary contortions. my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I your troubles." suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "What are they?" my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "And how?" had picked up in the wood. "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "At half-wages, in fact." was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from one or two very singular points about this room. For example, questioning and rather startled gaze. "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in cigars in their mouths. are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy get her out of the way." charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "We have tried and failed." of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "How often?" James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. you for a few hours?" paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "What have you to say now?" "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. past. tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last generous with you in money matters.' asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had to-night?" I asked. when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "The best possible." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic room?" "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper allusion to a rat. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "Oh, fresh and glossy." such attractions and accomplishments?' a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "Then what has happened to him?" Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the should be so warm over such a trifle." and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and know all about it," he snarled. brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the Holmes rather sternly. "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "But I have heard all that you have heard." paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and cigars in their mouths. McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "'Yes, sir.' skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed thin, with a long, sharp nose?" a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "'Where could I find him?' "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his it." came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "Did you observe the colour?" well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the kind enough to tell me what I should do." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given a monotonous occupation." to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "Yes." "Deserted you?" hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly province." the Red-headed League." address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "No, I am descending." study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he new duties?' until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this lumber-room." Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that "And I to find an enemy." round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. any." building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying "And it is--" called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing a suggestive one." something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "Certainly." of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his again before evening." already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. sofa. This way, please!" thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "She told me to ask you." business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, following enigmatical notices: terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "Just look it up, then." prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "Yes, at the mines." sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "Come in!" said Holmes. lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when system of imprisonment?" the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She the room while you explain this matter?" villagers almost as much as their master. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "Where, then, is my wife?" plantation.' sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was corner of the building. river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even "Then I shall certainly come." think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "Indeed! Whose, then?" vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "I shall be delighted." "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. "No, finished." whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "Come in!" said Holmes. parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs had formerly been in part my own. like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step suspect him." "And the cigar-holder?" they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our your most interesting statement." time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the best detective that ever lived. The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "But your client--" "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came Lee, in the county of Kent." remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew had this final quarrel? to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you Have you good authority for what you say?" - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from shoulder. and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. triumphant cloud from his cigarette. despaired of."