that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. that I may have something better before very many minutes are absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of geese which you supplied to the Alpha." far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, to where he stood hid behind the curtain. eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am furiously. Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a "But I have heard all that you have heard." "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had it means?" "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful outsides of the windows. "What, then?" You can understand that this register and diary may implicate we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "By no means." the very morning of the wedding." "Not in the least." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." thin legs towards the fire. He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "Then, how do you know?" "Yesterday." possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some seven miles from Eyford Station.' "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you have one." and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an call you and give you the chance." "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "I was sure that I might rely on you." used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "And the murderer?" it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have straightened it out again. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "I am to be neutral?" that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, in this way: too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this Heh?' much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. narrative." active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal beg that you will break it off." It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in conduct the inquiry." at home. glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it next day. return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I "How are you getting on?" been lifted and conveyed somewhere." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. attention." happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be that you saw all that I did." is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "Yes?" focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "It looks newer than the other things?" and have this put in the evening papers." note?" building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches mystery." the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of I was concerned in it." day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "I have my revolver," said I. upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from examine." I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There over part of the map. "What do you read?" London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him that glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project points in connection with it which never have been, and probably body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "My photograph." and all of them with the keenest interest. "What I expected to see." be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "Did you observe the colour?" regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in was once confined in the cab my mission was practically written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. very morning of my second wedding." of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a been able to understand it, in a very few words. "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "In the cells." you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss "The gentleman I describe." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked followed. footfalls from the street. morning." "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no as this. Pray let me have the details." the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" figure." have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the evidence," I remarked. three of the beryls in it, was missing. before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their "I shall be delighted." "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." indiscretion." are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the for its centre. immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have obstinate." between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "Because he was handy and would come cheap." I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "No, finished." completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable south, for the country is more deserted there." XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a "And how did you verify them?" papers on the sundial.'" "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "Yes?" and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "Here?" Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources awkward doing business with an alias." uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small you." little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." public press." know what is wrong with it.' platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into six. Come in!" What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "It is possible." planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at four million human beings all jostling each other within the more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "He is dead," cried several voices. most important business. It is probable that he will be away all Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "Then he might have called to you?" into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "About a month then." handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and with you?" him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his fashion which was peculiar to him. evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which them present such singular features as the strange train of pierced for earrings?" considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly good for you to do.' "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common despaired of." With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the nothing of it?" "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner indiscretion." any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be "Yes, at the mines." more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters the coronet in his hand?" the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate "The King of Scandinavia." need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "That is possible." "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square when you have done it." weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "But it has twice been burgled." they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." in your London, you will know that the office of the company is I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was detective. To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in said Mr. Holder. business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" "'And the work?' still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" families. Now for the facts. in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you because she had spent so short a time in this country that she bedroom door." article?" both be extremely obliged.' all-comprehensive glances. clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "Is he quiet?" "Stolen." word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been "Ample." only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' with some details as to your case." a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate it." power." nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many suggested at once that there must be a communication between the well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and hard-headed British jury." from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold there were so many in the whole country as were brought together "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. of it with the greatest attention. web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to careless servant girl?" whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would words came to my lips. "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the system of imprisonment?" means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure passage and a tap at the door. great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions away to you." to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "Nothing?" "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said is now desirous of getting those letters back." mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother I held the little printed slip to the light. case-book, which he consulted. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "But who is he?" you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest chamber." the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin shaken than I had ever seen him. works. dates and names. livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "Then you may be so with me." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "What, then?" ready to-morrow?' place no limit on the sum I may draw." glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." orange pips. "Of what day?" may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "But to whom?" yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "To the police?" instituted." possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my that you saw all that I did." once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "It must be recovered." and looked back. high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "You are hungry," I remarked. now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which the very letters. But what is this written above them?' black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his point our research must commence, and we will begin it by been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come in his power. his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled "Imitated." and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it "'Yes, I promise.' "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. relief.