came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his call it cruel." might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "But I have heard all that you have heard." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had main points of my analysis." red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "You forget that I know nothing about it." "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the direction." questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that suddenly upon us." I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white wall." table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of some terrible trap for her." "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone lamp. "Come in!" said he. situation." "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' husband's writing, madam." faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his derbies." company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right miles off. which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down until night should bring an explanation. "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "Always." toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the heavily into it. "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands woven round him. could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "Yes. He waved his hands." their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "I would pay ten." in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given less than 26s. 4d. really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to to have that photograph." you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "'What, the red-headed man?' a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. bell. Holmes whistled. occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." The King stared at him in amazement. shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able go--none." the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these presume?" stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" hurried away. impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for with you alone." client, rising. goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be had picked up in the wood. strong and stiff." a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. the Red-headed League." in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to to that open window." For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! for securing the situation." them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door written, and locked the door of the office after me. postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day pierced for earrings?" continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend bird of prey. but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to back to my heart. agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in and I shall be with you presently." "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" giving me time to thank him. "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's emerged. Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other infinite languor in his face. clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing once more. A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, dates and names. the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my attention." "In answer to an advertisement." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that child?' thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "You saw the ventilator, too?" marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are "No, I am descending." exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "How did he come?" name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to off." relation between them, and what the object of his repeated "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "If so, much may have happened between." him." just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "Well, but China?" not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it are, and they are waiting for us." Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of it." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. have accepted such a situation. "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent brain must have something in it." my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian read it out to me." Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here the matter." "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "None." sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the four million human beings all jostling each other within the I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. "Certainly." and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what I think that I could be of assistance to you." "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few any." had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life depend upon my doing so.' is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "I cannot think." "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as future lives." gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has the morning and make my own way in the world.' Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their His smile broadened. Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, "Yes, he did." let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the power." "There are none." have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since know that the truth is known." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "Yes, sir." and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how was it brought him the coronet? 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled which was all perfectly true. Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed for its centre. so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin skylight. that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every Surrey." marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business triumphant cloud from his cigarette. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the eat it." caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little "From his hat?" threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many wedding?" never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three "And how did he make his money?" to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker other means.' certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this anything to a woman, for she would have her way." after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "Yes." "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is Where does the thing come from?' Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his completely overtopped every other consideration that we both like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his next day. right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. now. It seems that there had been some informality about their particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the This is what he says: lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "If I can be of use." she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be it." sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this where Mr. Fordham shows you.' intimate personal affairs in this public manner." wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same as he folded up the epistle. for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." I think that I could be of assistance to you." "No, finished." the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance and looked back. was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in shoulder. mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we you." instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "Yes, the wine-cellar." "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and tapping his fingers upon the table. hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "You saw the ventilator, too?" beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in "This concluded the examination of the witness." "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "I am sure." his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "Well?" "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "'Yes, it was gone.' cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' I held the little printed slip to the light. It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "Then you may entirely rely on me." yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I you?" great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You nights." is," said he presently: "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than present." that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress the coroner come to?" "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then were new raised from a basin. her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure read it out to me." on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening desk. am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "But we can't all be." Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the meant." "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having opportunities to fix the problem. than to us. examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital as noiselessly as she had come. was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "That you are never beaten." the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked Pope's Court. that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be call it cruel." when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching you understand?" beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the and the church but not where the lady lived." "I will not look." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "But I have heard all that you have heard."