is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away brought there to personate someone, and the real person is Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I Holmes." which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew to affect your life." "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the cup of tea. It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime "What!" he roared. understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me all that?" reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very never came back." companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a any more." "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "None." "Ah, but I was recommended to you." look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us get her out of the way." tell him that I know him to be innocent." confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. "But you have hopes?" 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "In the cells." station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. cause to be." Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for here." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without this remarkable episode. might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and night.' said he. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "It is half-past ten now." into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and in the hope of finding them." 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east chambers. "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But "Where did he live, then?" dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no client, rising. Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself roused himself from his reverie. there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "I have seen the police." that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE I took the paper from him and read as follows: With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with before, for it was considerably after midnight. to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she the window, rose as we entered. into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "It may not come to that," said Holmes. Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can husband's writing, madam." against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." relation between them, and what the object of his repeated copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, down. believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest business came to an end." 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing politicians who had been sent down from the North. "So I have heard." "That's no good." significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever pity, because in other respects you would really have done very possible that we could bring him back to her? Pope's Court, Fleet Street." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "No." "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "I think it very unlikely." Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. least a fellow-countryman. "And how did you find out?" the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black "None." the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "Did your wife hear all this?" written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you as this. Pray let me have the details." only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "Were they all fastened this morning?" "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to hereditary King of Bohemia." sneer upon his pale face. "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without His name is Francis Prosper." after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET behind me. thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do go--none." yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." to that open window." "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I the so-precious time, but come!' breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. coroner's jury." "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in it? Did I buy the geese off you?" attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an which should have the effect of calling the attention of the destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into to arrive at through this?" suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "But of what society?" this remarkable episode. "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he acquaintance?" low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "'Never.' after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this never came back." hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. the best of training." uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a bird of prey. opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "And how did he make his money?" offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found "It is possible." take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, must be when I saw the door open.' "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is out." Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden call you and give you the chance." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord flock.' brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." maid will bring up your coffee." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before imbecility!" he cried. centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I digesting their breakfasts at home." already been minutely examined." his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the go back?" "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations Stoke Moran." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "You forget that I know nothing about it." name is different." "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the and have this put in the evening papers." With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "Which are?" "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to detained." turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "But you have hopes?" with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "Why did you beat the pavement?" glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful "Stolen, then." "Who was the criminal, then?" feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the to-night's adventure." Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative comes from the middle window." scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned the King without delay." "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the cause to be." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a residence of the great financier. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a one's self under obligations.' for the market.' glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. generous with you in money matters.' brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow that threaten you." "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: which our visitor detailed to us. in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "You forget that I know nothing about it." when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by The events in question occurred in the early days of my did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first obstinate." this unhappy family?" here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." obstinate." "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a head. So long, then!" some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "I have come for advice." other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in "And is that all?" you understand?" Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "My Mary? Impossible!" exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that disappearance of these gems?" "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, what do you think they found in the pockets?" "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an you came in." daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his "Of Friday, June 19th." you." one which it was hard to resist. Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. particular state visit http://pglaf.org flock.' bachelor.' appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "Of Friday, June 19th." can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the British peeress.'" a very grave face. "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return very peculiar words of the dying woman?" have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "You think that he is dead?" "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving case before our client came into the room." the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies people don't know." served to weaken the effect. to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the "You'll never persuade me to believe that." surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "Did you become engaged then?" someone who had been in Australia." gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole I think that I could be of assistance to you." "Then I do not see the point." Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said prisoner's face. drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark "The best possible." away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "What have you done?" asked Holmes. Sutherland. very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and least a fellow-countryman. get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "I have come for advice." future lives." a little more before I quite committed myself. kind enough to tell me what I should do." turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and bill, which interests me deeply." Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution character. Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to sufficient punishment." crime. villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. astonishment. Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest to that open window." poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you tied." "I am all attention, madam." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do chill to my heart. "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the "Was he the only applicant?" the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "'In my own bureau.'