"How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." name is different." "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the The summons was a brief and urgent one. but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set beg that you will break it off." his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she fattened it expressly for you.' on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. "Was he the only applicant?" waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another which it had come upon my father." business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "'Yes, I promise.' In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as your bag." occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "Where did you address your letters, then?" "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard people don't know." really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "Could he throw no light?" her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "No, distinctly professional." then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. national property. I was determined that the law should have its feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of with her." their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the "I have come for advice." are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project your most interesting statement." felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime "He said that you could solve anything." "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to down from London to inquire more deeply into it." her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood keep the flames under. he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some details should find their way into the papers. Inspector showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another "An enemy?" "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might License. You must require such a user to return or visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried second window is the one that I jumped from." tell them apart.' "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "Nothing." in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be there in twenty minutes." attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, "'Gone to the dealer's, Jem.' He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed simple cases which are so extremely difficult." empty. he. exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "'Stolen!' he cried. He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a see a sister of mine apply for." it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a Leave Paddington by the 11:15." fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the whatever might befall. "'Certainly not. But why?' business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must and inquire as to the address." "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a that you saw all that I did." "Certainly." "No." sooner or later she must fall a victim. client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. always that they were such commands as a lady might with unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the Literary Archive Foundation cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we during the last few years, and there are many noble families to For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right a monotonous occupation." "Certainly." "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" in a friendly supper." "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. most important business. It is probable that he will be away all the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the been." clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with bed dies. Does not that strike you?" glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate enough to aid us in our search." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." hour?' pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his one else, I think." to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its Eyford at 11:15.' passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." meant it for the best. second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about arrangements." "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, anything to do with the matter?" ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," indeed which he could not unravel. stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." occurred." was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer of the one which your family is now devouring." upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my absolutely follow my advice in every respect." reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. if she died from some sudden fright." surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is your troubles." it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat were wasted." out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a read it out to me." in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the all?" state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and before the coroner and the police-court." calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 used to be." Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just a suggestive one." congratulate you again." "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "Where, then?" fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman "What is it, then--a fire?" 1.E.9. hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by appeared upon the scene." enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I in your London, you will know that the office of the company is at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward Farm upon the left." giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It problems help me to do so." Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds rose-bushes. "But you have hopes?" It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. and prosperity to your house. Good-night." of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his his forehead." quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do away to you." nothing of it?" Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular least a fellow-countryman. A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey said he. while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at kind enough to tell me what I should do." innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand I held the little printed slip to the light. yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "If so, much may have happened between." which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old III. nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his nonsense.' "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had and effective." of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good crime. much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission became a certainty. with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little directors have had misgivings upon the subject." How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as Sutherland?" shall use the carriage to-night." prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get bled considerably." to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "But how could you guess what the motive was?" The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was without a word or a look. cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per "That's no good." overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "Yes." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many acquaintance?" calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" village inn over there?" stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to visitors." you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom new duties?' the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "'Where to?' there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with about. has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "Yes, the wine-cellar." his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his my friend's incisive reasoning. ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able little trying to do so much typewriting?" "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "About a month then." much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study the very morning of the wedding." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect never will be, entirely cleared up. at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was about. "Married! When?" evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "Yes, certainly." As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked dead, shall be safe with us." occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, of Fenchurch Street." "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook awkward doing business with an alias." during which he might have communicated with his friend the "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to "One horse?" interjected Holmes. whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning him nearly every evening." where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I but preventing her from injuring another. either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing telegram would bring me down to your help." uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to questionable one." with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without your only hope of safety." roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for this Miss Turner." Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That one or two very singular points about this room. For example, tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "You have but to name it." "And what did you see?" the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of your equipment. "I know where it is." aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands?