outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from felt the room to be a little close.' his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET it means?" work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? infinite languor in his face. a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical as he remarks, very much against the son." smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and hands. envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend "Was the window open?" clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she retorted upon me, and I on you." Sutherland?" "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "The gentleman I describe." Gutenberg-tm License. "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I derbies." were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in "No legal papers or certificates?" "None." "'What then?' I asked. I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting man. I know him from the photograph." practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate closely." outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one vault. acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his how narrow had been my escape. you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into one of them." of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "Come in!" said Holmes. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read way in." Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could indeed which he could not unravel. Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present direction." to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had grasp, he hurried from the room. neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "But what will you do?" I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" electronic works I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and "I have come for advice." "It goes to the housekeeper's room." I leave." the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover digesting their breakfasts at home." "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was business matters.' INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of learned something! Where are the gems?" foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet friend's singular character. skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? retorted upon me, and I on you." either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the you understand?" her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice me what he had done with the three missing stones. carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "The best possible." battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." once more to my work. good for you to do.' Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a his knees, staring into the fire. gone. any." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be strong reason behind." "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "My dear Holmes!" and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of rose-bushes. "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. that he will be back before evening." she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts you do it in twenty minutes!' "But she could not love him." "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came question. "Yes. He waved his hands." hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would to change my dress. British peeress.'" "He disappeared so suddenly." presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "And how have you succeeded?" have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage "'I am sure that I do not know.' offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to to tackle the facts." Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country this remarkable episode. "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling "That is also quite modern," said the lady. "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled Holmes' room. saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "Yes, at the mines." what is your own theory as to what took place?" "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "The landlord of the Alpha." "Yes." of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" which was all perfectly true. the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has without a word or a look. now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "Nearly eleven." wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "And I say east," said my patient. explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "Get out!" said he. sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal the nursery. "Dr. Becher's." teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a believe that I should never have any practice at all. of." "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his "What is it?" completely overtopped every other consideration that we both American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "I am sure." rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I point in the dark hollow of his hand. sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most Have you good authority for what you say?" woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my despaired of." retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest father's place of business?" disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may "That you are never beaten." "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. garden below. "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when neither fascinating nor artistic." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "What can it mean?" I gasped. "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a both be extremely obliged.' nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or strode off upon his way. "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. question. fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great tension within him. the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the tension within him. already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "9th. McCauley cleared. "Won't it ring?" that threaten you." ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had help us in this matter." to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest spark where all is dark to me." were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "Well, it is a possible supposition." woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "You have it, sir, just as it happened." police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the this unhappy family?" the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "What can it mean?" I gasped. dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself cheerful." to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the burst into a hearty fit of laughter. trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those Clair, of Lee." were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up his face which made him a very different person to the round, half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "Yes, certainly." I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "Well, it is a possible supposition." hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do strong and stiff." 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." "Were they all fastened this morning?" however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were hereditary King of Bohemia." twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "Yes. He waved his hands." these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "But how will you look?" why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing "But I am all in the dark." so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had sparkled upon his finger. glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" means taking possession of that which another person has a prior volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, developed." alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have The note was undated, and without either signature or address. their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you III. his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "That was it, sir." "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do strength in the others." "But how will you look?" Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is chemical work which was so dear to him. extraordinary contortions. "And how have you succeeded?" villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned 1.F. tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under "It certainly sounds feasible." when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are Doctor, of the paper and the date." "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money were wasted." the Red-headed League." "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "And did you observe any change in her then?" my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her conversation I have gathered that they have been married about Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "To the police?" much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "No." his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be as he folded up the epistle. leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our tear off another piece?' invisible to me," I remarked. Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he "Precisely so. But how--" half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, of note-paper. It read in this fashion: It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the Leave Paddington by the 11:15." cigars in the box." distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the the driver. peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "Tired-looking or fresh?" soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition.