"Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman bill, which interests me deeply." he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little sofa. This way, please!" "His face fell immediately. "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "Entirely." where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "Why did you beat the pavement?" one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "It is very clear." said I. never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah heavy and sharp instrument." it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, when your master had gone out." brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could my former friend and companion. immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt persecution?" named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately completely overtopped every other consideration that we both I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, individual and becomes the badge of a society." Heh?' than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police that he has suffered." "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father fattened it expressly for you.' "Where to?" "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "Precisely." upon the sideboard." railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than felt?" beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "Frequently." read over the extraordinary announcement. these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was following enigmatical notices: impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at works. age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," and prosperity to your house. Good-night." drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is a little more before I quite committed myself. and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, his forehead." pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "He is still with you, I presume?" person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "But who is he?" "I will try. What is it?" stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would the stable lane now." outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "None." "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the must be when I saw the door open.' In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, prove to be little relation between the different incidents of and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a locked." the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "My last client of the sort was a king." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from very morning of my second wedding." man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest annoyance, but no jest. the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "What office?" foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work For additional contact information: "I was sure that I might rely on you." case before our client came into the room." predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "Of what day?" have one." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one discontent upon his features. point our research must commence, and we will begin it by gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it that the gas is not laid on in his house?" thought that she would have been so carried away." "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." you want, then?' zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "Was she in good spirits?" "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "Yes. He waved his hands." traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no what I may call a really hard day's work." "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. you." fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "No." beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her this unhappy family?" heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than on in his house." the King without delay." Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the upon the white wrist. and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A my former friend and companion. by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of fire. You quite follow me?" propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There and files of the old papers, following the future career of every Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an like that before?" about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "And why in hopes?" straighten it?" "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress be. which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do rooms." desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making help us in this matter." nonsense.' floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "My dear Holmes!" union?" shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "In what way?" asked Holmes. adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to October 9, 1890. Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a "9th. McCauley cleared. skylight. "What of the rat, then?" "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "And the murderer?" you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is third from London." said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a questioning and rather startled gaze. "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." My friend smiled. "I cannot tell." piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband John Swain, of St. Augustine. across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but "What can you not understand?" "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached spare." and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." the morning and make my own way in the world.' lips." paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "'How far from the body?' We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "That is unusual in a young girl." mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in was a perfect sample of the class. wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "Not him." without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "'Which dealer's?' "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in For additional contact information: "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" occupations.' "I see many objections to any such theory." established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All think, you have already met." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. remarked. "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." your only hope of safety." great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we habit of advancing money.' uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "'And what salary do you ask?' shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few developed." hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for into her hand at the door and which lured her within their confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. my little problems." the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called least a fellow-countryman. starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. "'Why that?' I asks. think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that second window is the one that I jumped from." delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, against a man in the prime of life?" "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "Nothing?" from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. reach." out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "Witness: I must still refuse. when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly the dangers which encompass me." heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know I took the paper from him and read as follows: still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small said he at last. have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I "Stolen." comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly never to learn it at all." from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the to you." front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "Yes." point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but distinguish the words: parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "What then?" "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "Yes." I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a the coronet in his hands?" "Which are?" more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." "And how did he make his money?" misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint and all of them with the keenest interest. "Well?" that before taking the final step I should like to submit the the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a chance." pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to