public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the will not take me long to tell. who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." minor matters until to-morrow." developed." "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I wanted for ourselves." that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." "No?" case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are shall not find me ungrateful." "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" hour?' reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It own family. pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "I will do it." I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his in the hope of finding them." besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it will find little credit to be gained out of this case." anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." call you and give you the chance." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "You'll never persuade me to believe that." promised to bring home. took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a straighten it?" not personally threatened." admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the should be taken.' "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, horse could go." several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more "My private note-paper." Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds signal between you and your father? entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case the armchair which I pushed forward for him. particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey examine." "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you me where it went to?" "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "Never." it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "How can you tell that?" fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more "A call for help, you thought?" "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been compunction about shooting them down." strong and stiff." the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and made his money." question you as to those details which seem to me to be most Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will villagers almost as much as their master. ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is photograph?" eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman to a light-house. the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "And why?" the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless a suggestive one." fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "'And the work?' he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which bore every mark of being an average commonplace British reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "I answered that I had not. ways including including checks, online payments and credit card Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." of the vacancies.' in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own friends, not even his own brother. anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say criminal. We have already had experience of such." "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the think that he is innocent?" other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences than to us. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you "Stoke Moran?" said he. The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' upon the shelf for the interim." on re-entering her father's house?" 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "And I say east," said my patient. is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "Seven!" I answered. "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to II. the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George several quiet little villages up there." it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "Then, as to money?" round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they Serpentine Avenue. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at cigars in their mouths. round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and make me his representative both with the servants and with the other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "It is true that I have been generally successful." "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. up this clue while it is still hot." While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He the general public were present, then?" sparkled upon his finger. I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through "That is it on the dressing-table." that you can jump it.' go back?" dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have you." that so.' stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. there." should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "How often?" "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless retorted upon me, and I on you." threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable "You will not go there first?" "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "My dear Holmes!" Again Holmes raved in the air. "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "You have but to name it." King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "Not particularly." first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the pierced for earrings?" "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. if only as a check to my own memory." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and "Whose house is it?" appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the way: forbidden door. man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish away into the river." some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. again before evening." blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be which should have the effect of calling the attention of the pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet never to learn it at all." left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small face and glided from the room. "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. works. See paragraph 1.E below. my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house his face which made him a very different person to the round, transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but him to go away.' now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "Yes, he did." "Yes, but only for you and me." actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as leave you to your papers for a little." written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "You think so, too?" defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety me what he had done with the three missing stones. Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, time." knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to intrusion of other matters." I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from seen the man in the road." imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "No legal papers or certificates?" that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the sofa. This way, please!" your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock "That was it, sir." can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning late." "Certainly." these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the respectable self." "The rest you will leave in our hands." "'And what salary do you ask?' The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I eat it." newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." and a shock of very red hair. see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are down from London to inquire more deeply into it." and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle through." the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "Precisely so. But how--" pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" me. You must get home instantly and act." through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man not, dad?" she asked. whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and the address that was given us in the advertisement. to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are is now desirous of getting those letters back." "'About the same.' mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I within hail.' Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes the inner apartment." centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. copied or distributed: always that they were such commands as a lady might with strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "But I have heard all that you have heard." Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed "You have a clue?" remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his memory. "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we know what is wrong with it.' clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "Dark enough and sinister enough." reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was once more on the important position which you have been fortunate adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the congratulate you again." sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce hurried by. "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which me upon any point which I do not make clear." about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a thin, with a long, sharp nose?" stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and call the police, let the police find what they can.' were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage "'I am sure that I do not know.' "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked formed some opinion?" a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as populous neighbourhood." could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "How often?" distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and "Yes?" cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "I have solved it." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally strength." re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. My friend smiled. one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. Holmes' room. was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very father's place of business?" that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "'I am sure if I had known--' "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him.