continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "'What then?' I asked. that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to electronic works morning." to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a quickly through a disagreeable task. wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "How on earth--" "But you would not advise me to refuse?" set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable call you and give you the chance." the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but I think that I could be of assistance to you." shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our he bowed and left the room without another word. "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle the tragedy. "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. in one or two places in England?' tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an charge against him will break down." "Witness: It was. overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and was it brought him the coronet? matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond charged with?" yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the be there in time for your coming." body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. Mrs. Toller serenely. room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings points in connection with it which never have been, and probably for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "Was the window open?" At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is "And from a noble client?" Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid go from here to the Strand." her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. goes." knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. easy-going way." to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case I approached. comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "On your arm?" "I have seen the police." "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day "'Never.' "And for present expenses?" surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been new acquaintance to Baker Street. "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered throat." effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose suddenly upon us." great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite "Certainly." elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "Yes, that is the Crown." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now status with the IRS. or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to and all of them with the keenest interest. do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly your most interesting statement." "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." brandy and water within his reach. which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "Nor running a chance of arrest?" one's self under obligations.' Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he shoulder. "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and written, and locked the door of the office after me. married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "'Most admirably.' mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." "Precisely." gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his Heh?' "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the head. So long, then!" row." that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate "Perfectly so." "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a certainly do as you advise." was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "It missed him, then?" skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads "Perhaps I have." it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "But we can't all be." fluttered off among the others. exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange appeared upon the scene." introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre address. steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to sneer upon his pale face. the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in yourselves in at night?" "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. brought there to personate someone, and the real person is its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." was a perfect sample of the class. "Certainly." had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to such attractions and accomplishments?' the driver. note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her against a man in the prime of life?" graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle Lestrade of Scotland Yard." her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' important." pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their the dangers which encompass me." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful presented more singular features than that which was associated "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect said I. himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have Pope's Court. "'How far from the body?' drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere walking." Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to matters immensely." river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the I leave." from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "But she could not love him." arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, question you as to those details which seem to me to be most beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her presume?" Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found "And your mother is alive?" wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more there!' as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates than was visible to me." keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project "Do you know him?" the driver. to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense there!' noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence been." "Really! You surprise me." Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me into the bag, and made for the door. a very grave face. to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements God! What an exposure! What can I do?" The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water "It missed him, then?" strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "Then the page we have seen--" waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "I cannot as yet see any connection." promised to bring home. himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his notes," he said. wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, tell them apart.' of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found had this final quarrel? over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, over here." when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in me." drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an affection." of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "Murdered?" luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "'I shall certainly be there.' "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. down. the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, mysterious end." on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with have established a very serious case against the son of the Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, believe that I should never have any practice at all. night.' said he. emerged. you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "I answered that I had not. crackling voice. hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another Munro.' colonel looking down at me. "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was his huge brown hands. "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. may never be exposed to such a temptation." planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in down in his armchair and closing his eyes. of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a all that?" that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss man. I know him from the photograph." "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You outbreak?" salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had returned to France?" his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," voice, changing her seat as requested. sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "Yes." of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much you in your example." spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "Never." "It is solved." the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "And why in hopes?" with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "'Most admirably.' you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, which our visitor detailed to us. horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "Well, it is a possible supposition." figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very