John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "I have my revolver," said I. very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to indeed happy." maiden herself was most instructive." of receipt of the work. stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." and the whole place is in a blaze." would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere "But what harm can there be in that?" I think that I could be of assistance to you." employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had chill to my heart. "Married! When?" "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of crowd. the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the the one as in the other." "Yes, sir." he bowed and left the room without another word. you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the the child." hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper "ARAT," I read. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." it? Did I buy the geese off you?" photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the "And help." "You have compromised yourself seriously." late!' "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the existence." and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always experiences." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers "What, then, did Peterson do?" heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his him, that man would not have given me such complete information follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "No sign of it?" "Which surely he restored to their owner?" came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" redistribution. "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of bird of prey. when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "I am about to be married." present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the and put his glass in his pocket. an introduction to him?" possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation heavily into it. the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am true." come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to License. You must require such a user to return or "Was she in good spirits?" memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up I took the paper from him and read as follows: Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "An accident, I presume?" said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me in the port of London." above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, past. the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough side. Lee, in the county of Kent." threw himself down with his face to the pillow. The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and were unconscious?" perplexity from it to my illustrious client. words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my your own bird, so if you wish--" having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "Yes?" there when the Rucastles went away." about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just to tell." the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was his knees, staring into the fire. and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "'Is purely nominal.' with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net "'Yes.' "Did you become engaged then?" "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he strode off upon his way. "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry approach us with offers to donate. closing the door. had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the do." and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his second." it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were a very grave face. "Yes." records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, get her out of the way." might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of "He is still with you, I presume?" place, I think that there is good ground to think that the hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the amused." "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are But Holmes shook his head gravely. swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. roused himself from his reverie. meant it for the best. appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "On Monday." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the in. wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and points to suicide?" in this way: him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "Precisely." "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "My dear Holmes!" tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon that call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. "What will you say?" course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "'Not at all. I only doubt--' before, for it was considerably after midnight. in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice corner of the building. home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the mystery may be cleared along those lines." "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." not interfere, come what may. You understand?" delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" have an American origin." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked away in different directions, and I went off to make my own have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "But how?" eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at minor matters until to-morrow." "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, name is different." "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling upon the white wrist. do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large said he, "my real name is James Ryder." kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money the south-west, I see." one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the it means?" one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without just called myself is not exactly my own." fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" "Yes, only one." eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "And Irene Adler?" which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "That also I could fathom." therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you better grown goose." of." his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the along the entire front of the house, with three long windows backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove questionable one." writing, and yet I know it well." nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an Leave Paddington by the 11:15." of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to "No, but the enclosure is." look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to of receipt of the work. "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer reach." strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted without a word or a look. Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences flock.' following enigmatical notices: "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, to where he stood hid behind the curtain. "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, lectures into a series of tales." us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a you." interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is this unhappy family?" 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be certainly not very gracious." knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "And what did you see?" "And help." served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you I was concerned in it." silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "'In my own bureau.' "In the cells." to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "The rest you will leave in our hands." waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love country, and eventually married, without anyone having a robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate to you." "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking views." Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "My dear Holmes!" grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the his grey eyes. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. information in his hands the value of which he did not himself side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it Holmes." "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ to some other building. to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an shoulder; "he's all right." back alive. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor you give your casting vote to?" "Breckinridge is his name." complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The *** START: FULL LICENSE *** his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always roused himself from his reverie. SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of straighten it?" large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was unprecedented a position." reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I attention." at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If bedroom door." doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine and looked back. The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all wedding?" "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, strong and stiff." indeed happy." "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained will be renamed. perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. the address that was given us in the advertisement. "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to outside. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the to some other building. "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "I beg pardon." "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell