I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional wedding?" enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know enough to aid us in our search." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My Street. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might bird I ate is country bred." "Just look it up, then." visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to you." "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "Absolutely?" before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources the iron safe, which he closed upon it. that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the you in your example." "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes unprecedented a position." "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly business." might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the gives a meaning to it." existence." grasp, he hurried from the room. several quiet little villages up there." 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and him!" "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her think you a quite exceptional woman." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. business in the City. She little knew what. the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood minor matters until to-morrow." I approached. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me might have a private word with us. "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand the room while you explain this matter?" Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague the matter." roused himself from his reverie. "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips the side-table." "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return then?" electronic works Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. walking." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what lips." it." outside." "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was generous with you in money matters.' even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the what do you think they found in the pockets?" up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "Will you go?" "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." you?" once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "I have a cab outside." robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "I should be immensely obliged to you." "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we way in." Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and when your master had gone out." face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to as this. Pray let me have the details." would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. hard-headed British jury." "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. has little to do with my story." "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "And now?" I asked. "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage "One?" "It is a murder, then?" instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "I should like to see him very much." young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "I cannot think." deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the for the market.' "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "Of what?" "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "None." hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake exactly what you advise." rooms." which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "Pray continue your narrative." We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good in the port of London." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "The Coroner: What do you mean? in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty becomes even more simple." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are and I shall be with you presently." of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country train.' "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how success. "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said "I came to find a friend." the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. "Then, how do you know?" Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the already referred to. "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. the stable lane now." donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of of receipt of the work. sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this which it had come upon my father." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There of campaign. something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they "And why?" it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, or in danger--" at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, It was close upon four before the door opened, and a distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was "And did you observe any change in her then?" found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past heavily into it. slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "Yes, he did." LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his been shamefully used." empty. A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, yet." All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a that you can jump it.' have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I to talk it over. very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those compunction about shooting them down." maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "Oh, yes, easily." it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before ready to-morrow?' know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if will take you up to see the machine.' thin, with a long, sharp nose?" of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more Pope's Court, Fleet Street." and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. placed his cuttings. discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in "'Yes, it was gone.' painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "Not yet." "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." nothing of it?" gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other noting anything else of interest. foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "No." took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "Stoke Moran?" said he. For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the go--none." ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush father's place of business?" I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock "I should like to see him very much." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity stood on the top of it. "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic late." "'What, the red-headed man?' rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the "Breckinridge is his name." "What will you do, then?" might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them indiscretion." his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the outsides of the windows. two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before burst out into a roar of laughter. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H forebodings. putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "I cannot imagine." end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, your own bird, so if you wish--" easy-going way." authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "Were they all fastened this morning?" himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for nice household for a young lady." sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one "What then?" Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily what I may call a really hard day's work." informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, the coronet in his hands?" "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has see me here to avoid scandal." photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," Holmes' thin, eager face. cigars in their mouths. more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper was used.' "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I "Yesterday." "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." into the room. inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. never will be, entirely cleared up. abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of This is what he says: but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my him!" it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. "You have a clue?" above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "But I am all in the dark." open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and putting in the horse. one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." instituted." upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds troubles have been weighing upon his mind. sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her into the bag, and made for the door. gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A is," said he presently: rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have like that before?" "You will not go there first?" street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "I cannot imagine." events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to