"The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "No, finished." "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A have established a very serious case against the son of the "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel your own bird, so if you wish--" obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "What is it?" Clair, of Lee." difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if at home. a very grave face. the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "Yes." everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "No, I had a dozen." "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until even so self-evident a thing as that." 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "No." "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the possible that we could bring him back to her? away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, fire. You quite follow me?" hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "I am sure." from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "It is possible." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "I fear not." hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On where she found matters as described by the last witness. DISSOLVED. lumber-room." gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "And how did you find out?" as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young be there in time for your coming." A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten his fortune, and I went back to pa. clang of the bell. cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never fact, we may call it conclusive." that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this furiously. what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." true." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this question you as to those details which seem to me to be most but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless Stoke Moran." "I am sure." "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and evidence," I remarked. a monotonous occupation." ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in miles off. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." wedding?" shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood forebodings. suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been But Holmes shook his head gravely. the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass nothing of it?" the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "You will not go there first?" Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "Quite so." our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "Perhaps we may make them less so." "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My back to my heart. believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "He disappeared so suddenly." about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such been with you?" trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was the salesman. business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend up this clue while it is still hot." go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon "Then you may be so with me." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my Cross for the Continent." ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the test if we have an answer to our advertisement." events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." something of him before." horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face walking." kind enough to tell me what I should do." heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's charge against him will break down." observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "Absolutely?" "The murder was done with it." profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to his fortune, and I went back to pa. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for this as likely?" "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat know all about it," he snarled. "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the had this final quarrel? "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, which we had just quitted. My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "I am following you closely," I answered. parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where matter." "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my late!' did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are interested in these little problems, and since you are good deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "So I have heard." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently Countess of Morcar's?" case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. "But what will you do?" of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "The King of Scandinavia." charge against him will break down." "'Yes, it was gone.' Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were place, I think that there is good ground to think that the have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and some terrible trap for her." "'How far from the body?' over his head with a sweet womanly caress. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must I shall continue with my miserable story. "Breckinridge is his name." lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six some terrible trap for her." "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "The knees of his trousers." the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was States. 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six remarked. registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any IS was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. as yours." appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, room. off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up narrative." should be taken.' "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the do.' swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every You can understand that this register and diary may implicate never will be, entirely cleared up. Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving here and I will read it to you: suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "By no means." wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you compunction about shooting them down." between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now "'What do you call purely nominal?' have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand "Yes." woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "Stoke Moran?" said he. weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: I have it here in my museum." she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." upon the sideboard." you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "That is it on the dressing-table." least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. danger is over." all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this "He disappeared so suddenly." "That is easily got." yards of it?' "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called matter." mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria "No. What a strange idea!" know what is wrong with it.' little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg throat." very peculiar words of the dying woman?" key of the affair now." slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "Yes." "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. "Witness: I must still refuse. "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "But you would not advise me to refuse?" It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "What is it, then--a fire?" ways of our fellow-men." an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim "Yes." three of the beryls in it, was missing. the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that footfalls from the street. "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done said he. and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make ourselves in the office." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady points in connection with it which never have been, and probably American. Then who could this American be, and why should he "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "'Oh, no.' official police." that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess it. cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a impression behind it as though a window had gently closed observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a it right.' reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very to where he stood hid behind the curtain. dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of during the last few years, and there are many noble families to who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those Holmes." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I call for it in person on Monday morning.' It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best "And that is--" dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email bled considerably." Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your the iron safe, which he closed upon it. Mrs. Toller serenely. some city in a dream. I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the very peculiar words of the dying woman?" sparkled upon his finger. many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been minor matters until to-morrow." in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful you for a few hours?" would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was from the brougham. give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, the child." thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from will take you up to see the machine.' outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and him, that man would not have given me such complete information most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You remarked. wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most to some other building. day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a the night.' "Did you become engaged then?" through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring arms and began to sob in a high treble key. gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not go--none." why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to is four-and-twenty." his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." mystery may be cleared along those lines." fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his it." suddenly upon us." of receipt of the work. "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in system of imprisonment?" "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would you." afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her "What! a murderous attack?" II. and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a as he folded up the epistle. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her furiously. "That sounds a little paradoxical." quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "It must be recovered." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite pierced for earrings?" yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" should be taken.'