go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for have got?" during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. what these perils are?" wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "No." "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of Pope's Court, Fleet Street." he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the IS knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking out of this horrible affair." "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the do.' man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about this Miss Turner." But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the works. See paragraph 1.E below. horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. the station." "No." "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society been lifted and conveyed somewhere." running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend could go. deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; "I warn you that they are very incomplete." noting anything else of interest. of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "It is no ordinary one." I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "Upon what point?" snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my back alive. said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "A greater distance to travel." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "Yes." difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might infinite languor in his face. usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. Munro.' matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and comes from the middle window." "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "And what did you learn from him?" its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a as noiselessly as she had come. James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I what I may call a really hard day's work." crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit when you have done it." look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the prepare for the new role I have to play." about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely arrested. You then--" was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "And your father? Did you tell him?" of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "Nothing?" "What office?" when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "What will you do, then?" have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing late!' be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and off." "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in were unconscious?" think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded late." of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "Proceed, then." "What!" he roared. Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in good for you to do.' dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. "It is very kind of you." your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into he. hardly wander." "Then I shall certainly come." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding would apply.' The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. hereditary King of Bohemia." to his chemical studies. papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a "Witness: It was. came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some hour." dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "In answer to an advertisement." "Ample." gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be down from London to inquire more deeply into it." typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "Texas, I think." "And now?" I asked. uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he His name is Francis Prosper." answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big comes from the middle window." "I was sure that I might rely on you." doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should in. the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. here and I will read it to you: "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "Perfectly so." "But how?" charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from investigation." "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same in the port of London." "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "What will you say?" me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my maid will bring up your coffee." Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep it? Did I buy the geese off you?" accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "I have my revolver," said I. "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "How many? I don't know." returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "And what did you learn from him?" equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend during that time.' registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for late!' used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who words came to my lips. "One of the highest in England." finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic Lestrade of Scotland Yard." delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the green of the new foliage. had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are exactly what you advise." for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I chill to my heart. it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "How did you trace it, then?" "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but will not take me long to tell. "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and together. hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low "The murder was done with it." - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "Certainly." the very morning of the wedding." companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "Won't it ring?" news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "None." hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at is a common subject for conversation. Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "'Never.' the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, have got?" King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "'How far from the body?' I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose death." "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "And help." battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "Can I be of assistance?" understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. definite end. are windows in it, of course?" I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for in his hands." and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "Look there!" said he. sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! his huge brown hands. leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the done what I asked you, Jones?" stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "The rest you will leave in our hands." the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my outside. "Precisely." analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came with you alone." slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the to his chemical studies. "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon rose-bushes. Clair, of Lee." "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. matter." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time absolutely follow my advice in every respect." note?" Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping dear old homesteads?" "'Very good.' "In which, sir?" "And how did he make his money?" at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "You think that he is dead?" think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with one of them." fasten all the windows?" present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "I think that I had better go, Holmes." your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without there has been an enclosure here!" "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under approach us with offers to donate. against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! is," said he presently: 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the II. "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "When did it break out?" not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. present." "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden returned to France?" they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "Never." states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "Precisely so. But how--" your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner come either from the window or the door. My attention was were new raised from a basin. interests were the same as his." fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "Here?" "A greater distance to travel." and it need not interfere very much with one's other the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he one else, I think." Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "Yes. He waved his hands." shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. morning." begun to whiten, even as mine has." once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it which I could not give. He asked for Alice. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "I know where it is." "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in tail." Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when one of the states of the Union." "Your sister is dead, then?" enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was which are rolled in Rotterdam." set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "I never have." the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "On your arm?" found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed frequently gained my first real insight into the character of Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which down. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it "The best possible." its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." matter." sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide in a very precise fashion." lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his jewels which you have stolen?' Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email putting in the horse. with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare that before taking the final step I should like to submit the while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "I have a cab outside." is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, of the vacancies.' you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. roused himself from his reverie. manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion."