security.' compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit province." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "If I can be of use." villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her sound at heart." breakfast and whispered something to her husband. companion. the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "How about poison?" "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was occupations.' "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly and inquire as to the address." the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well imbecility!" he cried. again before evening." you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "'Certainly not.' suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "But who is he?" is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat off." admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "Yes. He waved his hands." glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "I cannot imagine." "Who by?" chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "Oh, fresh and glossy." "I will try. What is it?" myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "'In my own bureau.' observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "Yes. He waved his hands." my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint more solid." upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your and the church but not where the lady lived." time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I records." "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "'You cannot say what it was?' "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the coroner's jury." "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" papers on the sundial.'" "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he from the brougham. dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique that you wished to speak to me?' "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow "They are typewritten," I remarked. house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "Eh? What was that?" populous neighbourhood." was a lad." cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "Texas, I think." across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "I came to find a friend." receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. "'Yes, sir.' the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs the station." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "What! Had he lost his wife?" and effective." the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight the coronet in his hand?" for its centre. takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking think, you have already met." expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "'Yes, it was gone.' upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "I was sure that I might rely on you." "I warn you that they are very incomplete." "No?" or in danger--" feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the as he folded up the epistle. myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. information in his hands the value of which he did not himself undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." man. "Always." in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have papers on the sundial.'" probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon of them has the shutters up.' waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the even of instruction." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two of Fenchurch Street." for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "Pray be precise as to details," said he. good for you to do.' the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal call it cruel." lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her that you can jump it.' to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had in this note: miles off. last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "'You doubt its value?' he asked. makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when him, that man would not have given me such complete information where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "And Miss Sutherland?" there." higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "Stoke Moran?" said he. the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility McCarthy's innocence. which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." discontent upon his features. widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "And on what day did he meet his death?" interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "Yes, but only for you and me." against a man in the prime of life?" particular state visit http://pglaf.org Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put footfalls from the street. Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it "Then what has happened to him?" The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "Then, how do you know?" and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly "The landlord of the Alpha." while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "At the wedding breakfast." smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for soul! here is her carriage at the door." deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your you do it in twenty minutes!' some terrible trap for her." companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely said he. skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "'Certainly,' I answered. arrested. You then--" "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the bonnet, and went out." wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "Yes." wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "He said too much." light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "I would pay ten." have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to go--none." point our research must commence, and we will begin it by anything to a woman, for she would have her way." possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "Perhaps I have." cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they hand, madam?" for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered Where does the thing come from?' higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The and it need not interfere very much with one's other "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "Not yet." could not account in any way for the presence of the missing puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London "When did she vanish, then?" has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." easy-going way." Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "Not I." "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "Who was the criminal, then?" do.' "But not more so than I to find you." of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "Indeed! Whose, then?" flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at think, you have already met." "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving advice." "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, his grey eyes. "Yes, at the mines." headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle name is different." grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning individual and becomes the badge of a society." my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the cup of tea. inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "But you would not advise me to refuse?" "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his to you." any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "Pray let us have it, for all that." There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it such person." murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can I am not easy in my mind about them." this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very 11:15.' "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the him, that man would not have given me such complete information "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little written, and locked the door of the office after me. One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's Serpentine Avenue. the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by salesman. you for a few hours?" could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been little adventures." "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from behind me. aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "But who is he?" Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your an introduction to him?" "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "She walked into the breakfast-room." off." "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this past. and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the key of the affair now." of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' ran thus: outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. the Red-headed League." a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, "'Not at all. I only doubt--' brought there to personate someone, and the real person is skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look "And sit in the dark?" the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you him nearly every evening." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" said he. thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty train.' of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until children over to America with him, so that I found myself without to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and national property. I was determined that the law should have its "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project kind enough to tell me what I should do." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting the inner apartment." of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I threw himself down with his face to the pillow.