the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." "We have tried and failed." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "Not social, then?" to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "'Ten to two.' America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place vanished into the darkness. examination of the premises, but without finding anything which meant." The events in question occurred in the early days of my "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness she used." knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One narrative." introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I pictures, libraries, or plate. indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "When did it break out?" beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "How many? I don't know." "Why? What do you mean?" occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small Young McCarthy must be got off, however." apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" returned to France?" "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several be sorry for having acted so harshly." serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "No good news?" insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one made his money." are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All just called myself is not exactly my own." and your relations to her." considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "'Tell me all about it,' said I. other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "Entirely." "Of what day?" from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "One?" miles off. Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET that threaten you." "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, me have 200 pounds?' assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "Nothing." the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, threw himself down with his face to the pillow. present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I breakfast and whispered something to her husband. of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "Why did you pick him?" and glanced through. to Leatherhead. in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my that he has suffered." fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself Serpentine Avenue. "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "And Irene Adler?" work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "But the mystery?" place of silver." to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. weigh very heavily upon my conscience." after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the kindly on the shoulder. reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the stalked out of the room. his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "But not more so than I to find you." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been read it out to me." moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be than to us. been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "'What are you doing there?' he asked. was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the be.' will find little credit to be gained out of this case." Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "But what is it you wish?" been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will putting in the horse. grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that murdered man." the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was events than those which have happened in my own family." "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and promised to bring home. thought that she would have been so carried away." your most interesting statement." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "Where, indeed?" and inquire as to the address." they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been I took the paper from him and read as follows: Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the chill to my heart. remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in things are very often connected not with the larger but with the multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself Gutenberg-tm License. danger is over." "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "And is that all?" jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." "Will you bet, then?" be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, closing the door. "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "Pray let us have it, for all that." me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my other means.' himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "It is very clear." down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must carriage. It was a chestnut." "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" chance." "Nothing?" "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." lips." those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society said I. confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "How do you know, then?" "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such do you make of it all?" spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." companion imperturbably. easy-going way." himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" and capable of preserving a secret.' first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "ARAT," I read. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling never to learn it at all." "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will Mrs. Toller serenely. "But not more so than I to find you." one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. him. Clair, of Lee." business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "My opinion is in no way altered." "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "They are typewritten," I remarked. untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I retorted upon me, and I on you." authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." towards the blaze. my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs you want, then?' our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I married her." Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery Serpentine Avenue. whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible know what is wrong with it.' "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of the matter." overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to was a perfect sample of the class. job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine least a fellow-countryman. naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It was keenly on my guard against him. sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "I think it very unlikely." about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and believe that I should never have any practice at all. Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "Nearly eleven." said he at last. "'Where could I find him?' whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, noble correspondent could be. Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "I have solved it." submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill residence of the great financier. and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps be. "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and intrusion of other matters." Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "But how?" frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the I nodded again. business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' I think that I could be of assistance to you." office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. "I will do it." point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of eat it." regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down with the outside air!" Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite orange pips. Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be Street. "It missed him, then?" abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "She will not sell." feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "'I am sure if I had known--' families. Now for the facts. "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one would then never go into court at all." "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is along the entire front of the house, with three long windows parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in awkward doing business with an alias." the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your I took the paper from him and read as follows: who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and beyond words. "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will chamber." springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "In answer to an advertisement." of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell Eyford." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the hands. Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "'And what are they worth?' I asked. place of silver." it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. away to you." "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the morning." deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured Clair, of Lee." ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went to a more successful conclusion." weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only upon the sideboard." she slowly sank and died without having recovered her full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" happened." 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. frequently gained my first real insight into the character of given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a of campaign. what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "Very truly yours, there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be