trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And Holmes." agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the lost nothing by them." warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "That is easily got." Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send certainly do as you advise." paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was weighed down with some great anxiety. "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of "No, but the enclosure is." this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "Come in!" said he. who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, and the church but not where the lady lived." and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become unkempt, staring out at me. foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. like gravel from a pit.' strode off upon his way. than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the call you and give you the chance." however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a new acquaintance to Baker Street. began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "By no means." turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of visitors." admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may "I cannot imagine." I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; place, I think that there is good ground to think that the "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called some terrible trap for her." "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two "Then I do not see the point." bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the charge against him will break down." reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "My opinion is in no way altered." "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "'Tell me all about it,' said I. us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to eavesdroppers?' across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in was the fact that his father should, according to his account, in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he washing it down with a long draught of water. you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew introspective fashion. step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many distinguish the words: the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it some place of shelter and let the county police know what has massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "Certainly." Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "10th. John Swain cleared. narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. http://gutenberg.net/license). key turn in the lock." happened." of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see "Then I am your man." soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. married her." "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled deduce something from that?" "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. best detective that ever lived. shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should place of silver." to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her go from here to the Strand." the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning works. See paragraph 1.E below. of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of "Why did you pick him?" of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, him and tried to hold him back. hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "The Cedars?" strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he that you wished to speak to me?' "And sit in the dark?" appeared upon the scene." "'And the work?' thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea to arrive at through this?" should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "Just look it up, then." "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." are windows in it, of course?" "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "They are typewritten," I remarked. made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, hurried by. "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded "What, then, did Peterson do?" Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. Gutenberg-tm License. Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "It is a murder, then?" direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" had picked up in the wood. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, before, for it was considerably after midnight. "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "No legal papers or certificates?" It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been there when the Rucastles went away." stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low over here." once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, strength of mind to control. treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to for the market.' she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the "Stolen." "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "Holmes, the busybody!" "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is depend upon your compliance." enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a Lestrade of Scotland Yard." The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove spark where all is dark to me." with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a fire. You quite follow me?" wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between it right.' the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people wedding?" you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "I saw her in conversation with her maid." observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. yet." is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to recall any case within my experience which looked at the first 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. "I saw her in conversation with her maid." dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." strong reason behind." about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "So I have heard." other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, will he say when he returns?" possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of unprecedented a position." stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "Come in!" said he. have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. without success. At last the little money which I had saved began akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." have had none more fantastic than this." bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman Street. address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud cup of tea. 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the "'I have heard so.' "Yes." it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she daring than any effort of the imagination." dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for "Certainly." "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "Have you it here?" yards of it?' "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until events than those which have happened in my own family." exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "And Irene Adler?" "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "Not in a good cause." black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and mystery." who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an cigars in their mouths. how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his "Do you go out much in society?" "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the bird I ate is country bred." "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. there!' "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "I will try. What is it?" to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "Precisely." and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up families. Now for the facts. deduce something from that?" of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "She will not sell." but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which not fit the lock." by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." of the efforts of the United States government and of the better direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of arms and began to sob in a high treble key. reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" light and attacked it." third from London." sake, don't!" go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" excitement. re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of "No." If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the himself to hunt down. Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and for and were ordered to this address. we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness golden eyeglasses. dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "It must be recovered." may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it electronic works made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of "And why in hopes?" our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by