"Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he becomes even more simple." return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been out of this horrible affair." to me. "Yes." and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did will be renamed. double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "No." office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and have not had my rubber." persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. Sutherland?" "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, to me. seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now lips." just ask you whether you had heard it.' wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "No. His orders were to stay in the house." be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "What will you do, then?" yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as gone before you can get him to hospital." Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "May I see it?" work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a like that before?" blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy "How did that help you?" observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. must compliment you." "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" door?" the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It "Is he quiet?" "'I am sure if I had known--' horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he clanging. "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without writing, and yet I know it well." "What is it, then--a fire?" light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "Precisely so. But how--" that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the there." red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "'You doubt its value?' he asked. stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon "Here?" in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER breakfast?" This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction to a more successful conclusion." "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the me. You must get home instantly and act." interested in these little problems, and since you are good for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "'Where could I find him?' home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took to tackle the facts." "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the the inner apartment." is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a down in his armchair and closing his eyes. girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and "And why?" reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from washing it down with a long draught of water. "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "It looks newer than the other things?" another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "Then what has happened to him?" gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was Count Von Kramm." The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were dates and names. the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and quick march!" Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use the house with me." putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "If so, much may have happened between." off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "I have my revolver," said I. "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret burst out into a roar of laughter. "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his have I gained?" time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and the warnings." Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the at my own good fortune. I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he ordinary clothes on?" "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own carriage. It was a chestnut." I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "Thank you. Pray proceed." weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "Will you go?" "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I over with notes and figures. strength in the others." the matter?" crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the cigar and let me expound." "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old not fit the lock." Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." your bag." "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which lectures into a series of tales." association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, compunction about shooting them down." down. before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed figure." the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "To ruin me." "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a said Mr. Holder. the matter." was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic Street. Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes bearing upon the case." is acting for the best. that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "Not yet." imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this Street. upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough was already answered. murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens business." details should find their way into the papers. Inspector sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white "And on what day did he meet his death?" down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend triumphant cloud from his cigarette. came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of said he. "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "And Irene Adler?" Holmes rather sternly. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign "Of what?" child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of persecution?" success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "'Why that?' I asks. call for protection in the marriage market, for the present off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the speckled band?" circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been exactly what you advise." "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and hopeless attempt at recovering them." walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an down from London to inquire more deeply into it." the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. lamp in his hand. For additional contact information: Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I constraint." spare." far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does "What can it mean?" I gasped. actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "Yes." "Nothing?" course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a my secret was safe in his possession. and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" dramatic, in fact." "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the might help us?" He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here will not take me long to tell. with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to whatever might befall. hair?' window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' on in his house." creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions felt?" just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "Precisely." have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" the roots. instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "I will not look." "But how will you look?" I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the very old mansion. her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the "She walked into the breakfast-room." while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of "Very well, sir. And this stone?" dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of upon an income of about 60 pounds." delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at you want, then?' "Tired-looking or fresh?" they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "BALLARAT." of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his and the whole place is in a blaze." accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been you found me to-night--and running through the front room she never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "No. What a strange idea!" "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending shaken than I had ever seen him. "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. my former friend and companion. Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small "And you don't know his address?" It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before following enigmatical notices: "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "ARAT," I read. "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he you want, then?' traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "Nothing." ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "He said that you could solve anything." their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a started for the Temple to see my husband. "By no means." purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "By all means." "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you written. the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "'As governess?' increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I him, that man would not have given me such complete information 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. questionable one." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the Sutherland. Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "On the contrary, this is the right side." "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. "You have it, sir, just as it happened." considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other showing my impatience. geese which you supplied to the Alpha." of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after 11:15.' "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your becomes even more simple." flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is the coroner come to?" Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." place of silver." both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic come either from the window or the door. My attention was hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it me have 200 pounds?' a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "Was your sister dressed?" come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see she has been waylaid. There has been no result." breakfast?" "ARAT," I read. always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an "So it appears." prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "Then I am your man." "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt "Do you go out much in society?" time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he information in his hands the value of which he did not himself Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now "Yes." surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "Imitated." purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly Pope's Court. 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the and capable of preserving a secret.' will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to present." you." sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The she used." lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." garden below. course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "And you don't know his address?" wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the digesting their breakfasts at home." He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he read it out to me." said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a "Yes, all." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." the inner apartment." "I am all attention, madam." had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "Holmes, the busybody!" heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the house for five minutes.' which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his gentleman's clothes. hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your obstinate." "You have carte blanche." and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "In heaven's name, what for?" as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and not come at once?" now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very