deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong murdered man." and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the shadow pass over his face as I spoke. He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "When did it break out?" my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that night.' said he. indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look in the port of London." down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "'About the same.' could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it for securing the situation." "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with was lame." chambers. wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark salesman. walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "He said that you could solve anything." "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple lost his Christmas dinner." upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very brandy and water within his reach. were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. and it need not interfere very much with one's other had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "But how did you gain them?" so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "I am about to be married." "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "No, I had a dozen." "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in main points of my analysis." footfalls from the street. insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards lost nothing by them." round with crates and massive boxes. twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered down from London to inquire more deeply into it." of his shoulders. all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a ashen face. absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." weapon." drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings "'I have heard so.' "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all at home. black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. to affect your life." "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "But it has twice been burgled." therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual following enigmatical notices: was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and for the market.' Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in spare." and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be I am not easy in my mind about them." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a you." at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "How long did she speak to this Alice?" he. All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a disappearance of these gems?" stalked out of the room. any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "No, I think that I'll take it." preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "Yes." prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "It was." throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The behind me. hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" "You heard nothing yourself last night?" opened the door, and slipped through. "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "What is it, then--a fire?" young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and have I gained?" was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was have got?" "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of it? Did I buy the geese off you?" flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "When did it break out?" those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help at my remark. always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious upon an income of about 60 pounds." yards of it?' "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" and shall probably return to London by the evening train." to-morrow." "Get out!" said he. "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will "But of what society?" definite end. stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in events, Mr. Windibank!" do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which works. knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." his forehead." "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to questioning and rather startled gaze. eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I man. hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was call for protection in the marriage market, for the present her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I her also." pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. brandy and water within his reach. little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt fatally injured? The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. cigar and let me expound." "What office?" "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a a suggestive one." my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign "'What would be the hours?' I asked. As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you "I promise," said Holmes. was already answered. "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, excitement. "Yes." "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "Did he not advertise?" father's young wife. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has existence." suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the of them has the shutters up.' overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "How about poison?" law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of down in his armchair and closing his eyes. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the to me. "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually troubles have been weighing upon his mind. doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. once more on the important position which you have been fortunate insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "Just look it up, then." "And when will you call?" "Your presence might be invaluable." noise which awoke you from your sleep?" increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul with frightened eyes at his accuser. whether it answered to the description of any of their these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "'Oh, no.' heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "Yes." business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "What have you done?" asked Holmes. chance at all." serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner "They are typewritten," I remarked. so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of sentimental considerations in the background which would induce with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, impression behind it as though a window had gently closed knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have not come at once?" scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, his huge brown hands. Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence said I. skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and think, you have already met." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my our word." whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very about here speaks of his kindness to him." "But of what society?" "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "Yesterday." realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the "Has he come with you to-night?" time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it out of this horrible affair." from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "I am following you closely," I answered. "You will not go there first?" "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "I came to find a friend." "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "It came here." nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," "'A dozen yards or so.' the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight looking up at the numbers of the houses." nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, and laid it on the table. not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "I have solved it." steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was right! Sit down and let us talk it over." coat-tails." "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried your bag." Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a question. "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive in the port of London." accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it "And your father? Did you tell him?" excitement. "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his investigation." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter impression behind it as though a window had gently closed from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "It was an hour's good drive." have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "You have carte blanche." introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey at once, for I have only half an hour." stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real American. Then who could this American be, and why should he above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I meanly of me." bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "Which are?" bled considerably." came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The October 9, 1890. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went "Dr. Becher's." extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his was keenly on my guard against him. locked." it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch gone. "I will, Miss Turner." "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "'Quite sure, dad.' figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey union?" I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the without success. At last the little money which I had saved began the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but and prosperity to your house. Good-night." beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "I should like to see him very much." "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his key turn in the lock." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more than to us. have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come copied or distributed: takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it