"What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence "By train from Waterloo." need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." have had none more fantastic than this." that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "But she will refuse." of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the impression behind it as though a window had gently closed Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, Again Holmes raved in the air. go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried himself in a perplexing position. permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a 1.E.9. also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "Then I shall certainly come." governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and swore that no one else had been in the front room during the there when the Rucastles went away." Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly "It must be recovered." fear." "Why, what do you mean?" Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows get her out of the way." they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard "My last client of the sort was a king." hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had business came to an end." squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. Miss Holder?" "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' likely to be some crony of the landlady's." three fields round his house, and there he would take his kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was meanly of me." just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "I am sure." said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "The murder was done with it." dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre "To ruin me." - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just DAMAGE. had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always placed his cuttings. companion imperturbably. better grown goose." We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way horse could go." beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." or in danger--" "I saw her in conversation with her maid." he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. there!' hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming one's self under obligations.' impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to "It certainly sounds feasible." gives a meaning to it." few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may to affect your life." "I have solved it." back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "You have it, sir, just as it happened." in this way: police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would soul! here is her carriage at the door." bled considerably." matter." "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "Seven!" I answered. police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. most interesting one." from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place appeared upon the scene." present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "Who was the criminal, then?" "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of stood on the top of it. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" and shall probably return to London by the evening train." wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small legal crime." life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to II. slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide Chief Executive and Director the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time "'Entirely.' "Pray do so." providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually off." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of "How did that help you?" heavily into it. hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in carpenter." keep the flames under. "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "How did he come?" "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, there is a decided draught." it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right Farm upon the left." disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do keep the flames under. presented which may be striking and bizarre without being follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "I guessed as much." Sholtos." time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from in his power. here." who was a member of your goose club." in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the is entirely a question of barometric pressure." safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his him and tried to hold him back. "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical gigantic client. his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." It may be so in this case, also." XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted "None." handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my 11:15.' graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." burst out into a roar of laughter. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, photograph?" As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past works. See paragraph 1.E below. Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic writing, and yet I know it well." My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a better grown goose." look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a our word." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be present strange and interesting features that it is no easy Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "Perhaps I have." could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my DISSOLVED. was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." newspaper selections." for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. You want to know what became of those geese?" dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." Dr. Gregory B. Newby "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly murdered man." "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again retorted upon me, and I on you." "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a Edgeware Road. experiences." "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton I nodded again. "Not social, then?" Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "My last client of the sort was a king." such person." had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." disappearance of these gems?" "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "The decline of his fortunes, then?" the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously "Come in!" said Holmes. "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "No." I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "I will get her to show me." "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might crackling voice. "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." "And how?" signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid assist you in forming an opinion." his cane at the bell-pull. if I call to-morrow?" you." back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "And when will you call?" does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second voice. in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "It certainly sounds feasible." sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself a good hundred miles off by now." "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that Doctor, of the paper and the date." help us in this matter." possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "You will not go there first?" 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted at once, for I have only half an hour." me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend must compliment you." "But what harm can there be in that?" A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a some place of shelter and let the county police know what has your room." upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "So it appears." "Get out!" said he. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for carried out of court." she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the kind enough to tell me what I should do." Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions wall." slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern him. "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to the night.' at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned green of the new foliage. hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated ready to-morrow?' round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, "And that is--" tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, Surrey." covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, individual and becomes the badge of a society." "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "None." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here disappearance of these gems?" "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "'A dozen yards or so.' explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for see me here to avoid scandal." "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had said I. possible that we could bring him back to her? but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue "On your arm?" his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought lectures into a series of tales." in your London, you will know that the office of the company is self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "It's nothing of the kind." "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot Literary Archive Foundation one's self under obligations.' "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite again on its way. neither fascinating nor artistic." back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders lost nothing by them." tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his bore every mark of being an average commonplace British newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. should be taken.' suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I residence of the great financier. but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern "I think that I had better go, Holmes." together. relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly purpose of examination. "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on roused himself from his reverie. 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I room?" swore that no one else had been in the front room during the She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with such person." "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "'I am sure that I do not know.' and the colonel ushered me in. points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the said Mr. Holder. noting anything else of interest. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, http://gutenberg.net/license). him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the