weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and of campaign. equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling the general public were present, then?" has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the you in yours." which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we out of this horrible affair." have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King conduct the inquiry." "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards passage and a tap at the door. my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to place no limit on the sum I may draw." play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that for the market.' river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. that I can to serve you." We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in national property. I was determined that the law should have its that you saw all that I did." A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "Your presence might be invaluable." "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; recover the gem." showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this little trying to do so much typewriting?" dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of and all of them with the keenest interest. now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he III. it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great in the port of London." to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the "Why? What do you mean?" demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the affection." the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." matters immensely." upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your page at http://pglaf.org came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "I cannot think." He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by I have it here in my museum." me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. Holmes." would then never go into court at all." right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography "And how have you succeeded?" open." have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "But he might be a bachelor." from the brougham. Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It presented which may be striking and bizarre without being XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to recall any case within my experience which looked at the first going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of main points of my analysis." being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an his eyes and forehead. a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having directly by questioning you." corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, that he has suffered." during that time.' of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are there was no need for father to know." "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such legal crime." "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "Yes." matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "What are they?" pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small round and wave him away like that.' "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action fact, we may call it conclusive." "Come in!" said he. tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was "It's nothing of the kind." that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "What shall I do?" like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "Of Friday, June 19th." "But his left-handedness." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by hard-headed British jury." between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I the roots. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the 'please.'" rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, future lives." "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion bore every mark of being an average commonplace British was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the at my own good fortune. With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of some mystery and the punishment of some crime." very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said be. felt?" "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to "In the cells." answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of my room." o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. tail." there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the believe that I should never have any practice at all. if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to o'clock is it?" the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he out." he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an round and wave him away like that.' and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an hard-headed British jury." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "Why serious?" "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." brain must have something in it." "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, shoulder. the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate kindly on the shoulder. my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." sound at heart." whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, union?" stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to to a light-house. "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general habit of advancing money.' "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to that you wished to speak to me?' "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause question. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. back alive. routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" pressing in one house as in another. introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a really the only notable feature about the thing." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face awaited us upon the table. jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. his wife has ceased to love him." Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises that I may have something better before very many minutes are Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my questioning and rather startled gaze. affair. "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, delirious. it? Did I buy the geese off you?" PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. together. used to be." time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I to tell." recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, and put his glass in his pocket. but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I go back?" "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." strode off upon his way. it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied went to the Alpha were town bred." destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the forbidden door. must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would in a friendly supper." were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by note?" can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will father's young wife. "Yes, sir." Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign "My opinion is in no way altered." despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "If I can be of use." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "A client, then?" boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" mysterious business." earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "Where, indeed?" 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "Can I be of assistance?" photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "And how did you find out?" without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white assist you in forming an opinion." preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, visitors." "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. gbnewby@pglaf.org "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." of the way of danger. were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in crime." terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them not use it unless it is absolutely needed." slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous Cross for the Continent." Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond little adventures." wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "Not in the least." down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of back into the street. suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "Not particularly." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. ventilator." "Of what day?" forehead. fatally injured? fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the entirely devoid of interest." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "Where, then?" "My dear Holmes!" call for protection in the marriage market, for the present empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "When did she vanish, then?" "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be breakfast." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he kind enough to tell me what I should do." Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the presented more singular features than that which was associated I nodded to show that I had heard. "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in companion quietly. saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "Of what?" The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss served to weaken the effect. companion. no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or noise which awoke you from your sleep?" in this note: crackling voice. it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone."