should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get written. and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no "'And what salary do you ask?' me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. bird of prey. making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "I saw her in conversation with her maid." centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the corner of the building. ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "But you were on a friendly footing?" any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your was a perfect sample of the class. cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "I cannot say that I have." was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "Witness: I must still refuse. the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has him to be an active member of the medical profession." but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing quite distinctive." fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become good-night and bustled off upon her way. long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish the south-west, I see." to have been novel and of interest." into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived new duties?' have established a very serious case against the son of the "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw the stones. envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's business matters.' was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the disappearance of the bride.'" papers on the sundial.'" Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "But what will you do?" We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away way in everything. him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, formed some opinion?" note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' spare." his knees, staring into the fire. "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in "Yes, only one." the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but threw himself down with his face to the pillow. that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "We must have a cab." "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out not use it unless it is absolutely needed." little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "It is possible." in his power. the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed anything to do with the matter?" wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "And what then?" from the brougham. "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive "I was afraid that you were engaged." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the guilty parties." out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "They are typewritten," I remarked. went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "And why?" the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous mystery!" as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to highly," said Holmes. to arrive at through this?" go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of habit of advancing money.' I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a where she found matters as described by the last witness. Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "What I expected to see." will find little credit to be gained out of this case." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "To an end?" "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, the address that was given us in the advertisement. the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. I am not easy in my mind about them." might have a private word with us. "It goes to the housekeeper's room." not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." British peeress.'" habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "Well?" sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to note?" to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up learned something! Where are the gems?" "I cannot tell." Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him character. "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of Holmes rather sternly. noise which awoke you from your sleep?" at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "One of the highest in England." "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late hard-headed British jury." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy characteristics, but those are the more obvious." My friend smiled. Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. fishes. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. the bed, and you in that chair." forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way "Yes." by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the electronic works the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no the station." As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the really the only notable feature about the thing." Sholtos." "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made that you saw all that I did." flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell "I see no marks." thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your read over the extraordinary announcement. the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. "I am following you closely," I answered. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a London for the present?" recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "Yes." league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at pressing in one house as in another. France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to copied or distributed: upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. chair. "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "You are certainly joking, Holmes." is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving your sleep?' Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting putting in the horse. St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn retorted upon me, and I on you." advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at "Was your sister dressed?" characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two of a light. the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would soul! here is her carriage at the door." intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would roused himself from his reverie. interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "I do." in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope and a shock of very red hair. "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box we went to search for him, face downward in a little window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and you want, then?' very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must disturbance in my wife." upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." "Of what?" about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste true." gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. beyond words. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes possible that we could bring him back to her? beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here girl said." reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "Do you go out much in society?" dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded instincts rose up against that laugh. sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester that he will be back before evening." the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it was keenly on my guard against him. Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "It was." "It is his hat." Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for as noiselessly as she had come. "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of himself. which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not name is different." "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of Farm upon the left." "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by you want, then?' the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over presented more singular features than that which was associated great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which you for a few hours?" upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "That is easily got." workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending "Married! When?" arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an sufficient punishment." Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I believe that I should never have any practice at all. agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the Holmes' room. Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take could gather together that I was able to avert another public beyond words. "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, had died away into the silence from which it rose. "Absolutely none." in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was straighten it?" "Entirely." footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to the coronet at all injured?" in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom followed. "You are hungry," I remarked. to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the burst into a hearty fit of laughter. engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I outside. "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "No, but the enclosure is." should be so warm over such a trifle." quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "'Entirely.' seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" "But you would not advise me to refuse?" "And what did you learn from him?" "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of you want, then?' threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. It may be so in this case, also." his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of Henry Baker is a member." "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet "Not in the least." Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or think you a quite exceptional woman." to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same to tell." village inn over there?" I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is secret." swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he chair. her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical relief. too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you strength of mind to control. hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was States. the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts.