either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "And what did you learn from him?" anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There them present such singular features as the strange train of "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate you." "Absolutely none." "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of breakfast and whispered something to her husband. We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "Well." "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come papers diligently of late, have you not?" of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." round with crates and massive boxes. he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "He might." Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "'Ample.' coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, States. there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "Perhaps we may make them less so." closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "'Most admirably.' The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, companion. seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." was once confined in the cab my mission was practically his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." was it brought him the coronet? not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some shall use the carriage to-night." during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "'Entirely.' what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "Thank you. Pray proceed." "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do "But of what society?" police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, conclusions. terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that eat it." certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "I do." "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it "He is dead," cried several voices. the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "I should wish to." "No?" combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "What have you to say now?" in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "What can it mean?" I gasped. "Nothing." window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the strange features which were associated with the two crimes which beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "I will get her to show me." least a fellow-countryman. France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is go--none." head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "Very murderous indeed." what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely despair." "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "We must sit without light. He would see it through the there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the which was all perfectly true. upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "How often?" pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate for and were ordered to this address. at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "And why?" incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of the warnings." "One of his hands." house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton "Certainly." alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began have an American origin." "And Irene Adler?" that there was nothing in it, after all." coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "'Yes, sir.' "If so, much may have happened between." "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "And help." are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "He said too much." and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "One?" pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could south, for the country is more deserted there." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "What can you not understand?" very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, not come at once?" might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" but preventing her from injuring another. voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those "Game for a morning drive?" weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his the address that was given us in the advertisement. who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a as he remarks, very much against the son." last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "Yes, sir." wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and detective. that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry Holmes' room. as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the stalked out of the room. or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we there has been an enclosure here!" room had already been engaged for us. upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." "No?" other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they chance at all." came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' suspect him." "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of the side-table." remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." bearing upon the case." gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his I held the little printed slip to the light. of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it not interfere, come what may. You understand?" the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then said he, "my real name is James Ryder." hour?' remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk now. It seems that there had been some informality about their chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "Yes." violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that business at Coburg Square is serious." ran thus: to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every before, for it was considerably after midnight. lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting you do it in twenty minutes!' clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what never came back." of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm straightened it out again. woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two McCarthy's innocence. heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out details." He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out trifles." helping a boy to put up the shutters. "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "Where, then?" admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United money should be paid at once.' set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the place, I think that there is good ground to think that the manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. conclusions. He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "A client, then?" table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that meanly of me." river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you all that?" Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." round with crates and massive boxes. remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this shag which I had seen upon the previous night. to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "'There is a drive, then?' sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with 1.F. for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It "But we can't all be." forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's made his money." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "What is it?" "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a searched, without anything being found which could incriminate very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was walking." photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain hurried away. Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, woman." relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "By no means." has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a License. You must require such a user to return or "'Where to?' so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' Have you good authority for what you say?" which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "'I am sure if I had known--' "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when crowd. again, where I was soon asleep. "Then I can wait in the next room." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The place of silver." however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder examination of the premises, but without finding anything which not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "Look there!" said he. of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "So I am. Very much so." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even the matter." seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. observed. you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called back into the street. his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very for and were ordered to this address. "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say presume?" "Why did you pick him?" "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "It is very clear." (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. grasp, he hurried from the room. true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "I am armed." has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim present." plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "I see many objections to any such theory." to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." "And I say east," said my patient. "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He deduce something from that?" He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a intrusion of other matters." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "Not social, then?" 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to meanly of me." goes." from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place do." "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love appointment with me for six o'clock?" of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "Yes, at the mines."