wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, the address that was given us in the advertisement. girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I of receipt of the work. "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a "And what then?" that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. wife's character?" shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "What then?" back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "No." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. "You don't mind breaking the law?" would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "No, my brougham is waiting." "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation intrusion of other matters." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that walking." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a would apply.' impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "Were they all fastened this morning?" word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "That is unusual in a young girl." "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly minor matters until to-morrow." conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely society." "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took children over to America with him, so that I found myself without Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would me upon any point which I do not make clear." "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "It is no ordinary one." of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching rat could hardly pass through." I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this Street. details should find their way into the papers. Inspector of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was that, and I came down." the side-table." rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. appeared upon the scene." The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when go from here to the Strand." connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a of them has the shutters up.' seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A man. impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your dramatic, in fact." "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were detained." beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right opened the door, and slipped through. stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "So I heard. You have him here?" itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon suspect him." that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, I took the paper from him and read as follows: looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his had this final quarrel? fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he said I. the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her redistribution. of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "Which are?" that you can jump it.' "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean touch that coronet?' statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "I cannot think." in darkness. naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "And help." undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "The knees of his trousers." bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "And for present expenses?" fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has letters?" "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they discontent upon his features. thin, with a long, sharp nose?" the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to to-night?' matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "Why serious?" the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "'I have heard so.' could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at conversation I have gathered that they have been married about there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the God! What an exposure! What can I do?" handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a the Red-headed League." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking there were one or two details which were new to me. But the we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just colonel looking down at me. "I am following you closely," I answered. minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and chance." "And when will you call?" the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each at a side door. "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence photograph?" October 9, 1890. the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, touch that coronet?' about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just presented more singular features than that which was associated I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "Of Friday, June 19th." letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. the very morning of the wedding." sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "Your sister is dead, then?" "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "My Mary? Impossible!" of Mr. Rucastle's." "'I have heard so.' in him." always that they were such commands as a lady might with been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." indeed happy." seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "'It is locked up,' I answered. "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with strange features which were associated with the two crimes which (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are that I am arrested." "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." Chief Executive and Director "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes might help us?" governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "My last client of the sort was a king." his face. "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in "Can I be of assistance?" first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "You horrify me!" upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from thirty. black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" prison!" fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left these bleak autumnal evenings." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I sooner or later she must fall a victim. boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were face and glided from the room. profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear other, as fresh and trim as possible. "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "A client, then?" himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "The best possible." but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It foot. Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it should be so warm over such a trifle." years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a "We were both in the photograph." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "'You cannot say what it was?' I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At that you can jump it.' was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of everything which you would wish to know." other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." the coroner come to?" "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the copied or distributed: bird I ate is country bred." the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. to miss it." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any from you?" comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "I cannot imagine." "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were ready to-morrow?' table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which later, upon the night of May 2nd." was a loud and authoritative tap. "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential do you make of it all?" looking up at the numbers of the houses." Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as the armchair which I pushed forward for him. whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than My friend smiled. "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and was already answered. the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and Have you good authority for what you say?" events than those which have happened in my own family." next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "This concluded the examination of the witness." "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "So it appears." "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I Mrs. Toller serenely. "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our voice, changing her seat as requested. of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to "Ah!" forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "And Irene Adler?" husband's writing, madam." on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "He said too much." occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door "Could he throw no light?" One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "To the police?" the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. extraordinary contortions. still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "He slept on the premises." bed dies. Does not that strike you?" Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important the night.' VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may "And help." Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy Count Von Kramm." protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I it means?" set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never the bottom.' office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then notes," he said. next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See late." shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "What is it, then--a fire?" of receipt of the work. there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "That is possible." room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short not interfere, come what may. You understand?" the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated "Yes." a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's the very morning of the wedding." until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both Pope's Court, Fleet Street." Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which residence of the great financier. at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I to arrive at through this?" that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect it." in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out system of imprisonment?"