"I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of waste of energy." to you." perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found politicians who had been sent down from the North. it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another lips." "The best possible." when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. present." attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, Street. "'How far from the body?' rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out had formerly been in part my own. say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "It's nothing of the kind." merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "I will do it." up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord and laid it on the table. "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the bare slabs of marble. prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "So I am. Very much so." from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we directors, with the result that you have seen." home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm eavesdroppers?' "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which heavy and sharp instrument." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "My dear Holmes!" "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "Never." directors, with the result that you have seen." International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible look upon these things in a different way." thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know most interesting one." by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from maid will bring up your coffee." "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. most interesting one." way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "Oh, yes, easily." conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "Ah!" at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to hardly wander." We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "Look there!" said he. see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and you, my dear young lady?' into the room. that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to politicians who had been sent down from the North. pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat children over to America with him, so that I found myself without purpose equally well?" profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say call for it in person on Monday morning.' upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I as yours." my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never pierced for earrings?" machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a about here speaks of his kindness to him." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in notes," he said. the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can and inquire as to the address." "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible in. charged with?" room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." him nearly every evening." suspect him." allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "'Yes, sir.' had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and made him keep the appointment." submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." imbecility!" he cried. Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. "She told me to ask you." lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her mysterious business." daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." formed some opinion?" This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred seem to you to be relevant or not." gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "But you would not advise me to refuse?" money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would your sleep?' the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a power." jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the I nodded to show that I had heard. troubles have been weighing upon his mind. works. annoyance, but no jest. from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his know what is wrong with it.' He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to minor matters until to-morrow." request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in get her out of the way." finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain again before evening." lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our excitement. "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing country, and eventually married, without anyone having a Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned that there was nothing in it, after all." and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An from the brougham. "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the been." "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "VIOLET HUNTER." "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if "'Never.' matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or writing, and yet I know it well." could not have written that. It is the German who is so to you." estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found wanted for ourselves." an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "'And the work?' more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination "And when will you call?" mysterious business." cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the said he at last. glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social recover the gem." screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. companion quietly. in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. through." we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." trying to your nerves." across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been sit on the left-hand side of the driver." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off instituted." zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "You have a clue?" "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." death." "Pray do so." "And leave your case unfinished?" works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "The gentleman I describe." "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt excitement. between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was rat could hardly pass through." that you can jump it.' ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "What do you make of that, Watson?" the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "What!" he roared. fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid our word." opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of "Here?" Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "Precisely." centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "Married! When?" question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "His face fell immediately. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and floor. I nodded again. work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased both be extremely obliged.' so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it there." farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. strange features which were associated with the two crimes which slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." guilty parties." "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. "Yes, he did." Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "That is it on the dressing-table." state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out depend upon your compliance." the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his became a certainty. my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further to take care of herself." former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "Do you go out much in society?" Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible acquaintance?" that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek the best of training." depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism maiden herself was most instructive." conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily companion quietly. overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on me, and I could not think that his explanation of the and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted This is what he says: certainly not very gracious." named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; "Murdered?" away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, absolutely follow my advice in every respect." takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, colour had been driven from his face. occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst "No good news?" "Dirty?" spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere crackling voice. any." "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the see me here to avoid scandal." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. hard-headed British jury." and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "That sounds a little paradoxical." heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "'Never,' said I. charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "'Entirely.' could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies skylight. said he. "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from window when the police appeared." least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." acquaintance?" "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime."