"Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "It is solved." lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a call you and give you the chance." as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "Imitated." heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her in one or two places in England?' side. he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his anything to a woman, for she would have her way." Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated Watson," he said cordially. "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover 1.F. if only as a check to my own memory." look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "And why in hopes?" presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit ceremony." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted digesting their breakfasts at home." yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "I was afraid that you were engaged." round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters my former friend and companion. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined bachelor.' peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" your most interesting statement." "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, "Certainly, madam." of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended were unconscious?" "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "Very truly yours, these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. other lovers by making love himself." foresight and the moral retrogression?" "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good "Well, it is a possible supposition." lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in been deceived." window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then in one or two places in England?' been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one present strange and interesting features that it is no easy fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "Here?" consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him "Won't it ring?" his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the come either from the window or the door. My attention was I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his one else, I think." the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "'And the work?' up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "'Yes, sir.' "What can it mean?" I gasped. her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, undoubtedly my uncle's." prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "I will not look." that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "It is solved." last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation useful material for showing traces. The double line a little a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon "It certainly sounds feasible." There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "You have carte blanche." "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a and I shall be with you presently." reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "What, then, did Peterson do?" nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, upon a handsome competence. his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but friend's singular character. "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is tell them apart.' INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH kindly on the shoulder. will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "And the cigar-holder?" from you?" telegram would bring me down to your help." "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you woman." "Not yet." crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at hopeless attempt at recovering them." of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are in him." fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical the iron safe, which he closed upon it. was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small hand, madam?" the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." you in yours." have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for 1.E.9. "The Cedars?" without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "Very truly yours, you want, then?' rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "In what way?" asked Holmes. him and tried to hold him back. "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was or in danger--" This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "Oh, yes, easily." we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time official police." "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to The telegram which we eventually received came late one night seen the man in the road." There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "10th. John Swain cleared. stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the said he. landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "I am armed." Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at I nodded to show that I had heard. "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of make me his representative both with the servants and with the this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they "None." I approached. way in everything. thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the shall not find me ungrateful." "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "How did you trace it, then?" province." and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see conversation I have gathered that they have been married about extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few forebodings. greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a the station." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an The note was undated, and without either signature or address. compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last more terrible than the truth. paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope stammered. sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "'Yes, it was gone.' "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll "It is a murder, then?" Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "It is true that I have been generally successful." and laid it on the table. "And I say east," said my patient. may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from absorbing." first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any colour had been driven from his face. greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round "Yes." The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "I will, Miss Turner." Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been papers." he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about Street. quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the help us in this matter." security.' o'clock is it?" down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed miles off. However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I drove away. but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "And now?" He raised his hand. "A client, then?" "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. the coronet at all injured?" instituted." impression behind it as though a window had gently closed We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' prisoner's face. springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The I shall communicate with you." "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "At half-wages, in fact." "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which answered with a sidelong glance. compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking and the church but not where the lady lived." have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "'A dozen yards or so.' may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for gives a meaning to it." parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "I answered that I had not. I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the "I have hopes." "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a "No." very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key I shall communicate with you." for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all over with notes and figures. very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though redistribution. questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been recover the gem." "What?" broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. entirely devoid of interest." skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly the very letters. But what is this written above them?' of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. "My dear Holmes!" registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can over with notes and figures. a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. dates and names. you do it in twenty minutes!' occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced shoulder. dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had business in the City. She little knew what. "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. stammered. impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal suspect him." than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking "I say that I have solved it." just ask you whether you had heard it.' who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some http://www.gutenberg.net was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "Murdered?" Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. said he at last. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work system of imprisonment?" goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the front of the hall door has given its name to the place. I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this During two years I have had three consultations and one small About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "The doctor?" observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we are, I think, all that we need." "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness 1.F. hour?' prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "About a month then." advice." young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea friend's singular character. of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that better in every way that they should make their position a little "'Where to?' it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as the stones. read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the Holmes." hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an maiden herself was most instructive." to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "What! You do not mean bodies?" come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who asked. once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one was not a bird to be seen there. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "But not more so than I to find you." "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque "Look there!" said he. by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, in this note: "'And the work?' beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital would be as well for you to have your pistol ready."