year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying Lee, in the county of Kent." was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the to arrive at through this?" police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled in his power. "No, I think that I'll take it." he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable in darkness. misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the "Witness: Nothing definite. "Well, it is a possible supposition." "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "Where did he live, then?" "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out sit on the left-hand side of the driver." we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I Eyford at 11:15.' that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an which our visitor detailed to us. "'Yes, sir.' Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "And you thought he was pulled back?" indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no and capable of preserving a secret.' the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "He disappeared so suddenly." "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor seven miles from Eyford Station.' me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "Yes, it would be as well." "It was a confession," I ejaculated. skylight. metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "How often?" "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What away to you." the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, one else, I think." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." you." eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "What of the rat, then?" a good hundred miles off by now." "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be most important business. It is probable that he will be away all nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "The murder was done with it." daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "Here?" been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. a suggestive one." not use it unless it is absolutely needed." one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I this unhappy family?" "I think that it is very probable." and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. "I will not look." "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. not as remarkable as your advertisement." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. man. all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it out of this horrible affair." "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood other means.' a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll if only as a check to my own memory." overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "I fear not." future lives." considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "But she could not love him." "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "Pray tell us what has happened to you." was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." said Mr. Holder. other, as fresh and trim as possible. play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a case before our client came into the room." end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some weighed down with some great anxiety. note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I "How do you know, then?" "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go chair. and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I know that the truth is known." not within a twentieth part of the market price." again, where I was soon asleep. position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the better in every way that they should make their position a little http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "'Ample.' that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his her also." narrative." refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and prison!" in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black sit on the left-hand side of the driver." while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the in my life." But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman their singular warning or token before them when starting upon business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the relief. the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich the ceiling. empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "My own seal." Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at and put his glass in his pocket. "It is to him that this trophy belongs." daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" were wasted." charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, train from Paddington which would bring you there at about you found me to-night--and running through the front room she thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally thin legs towards the fire. where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the electronic works paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help prison!" "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would he died? furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and infinite languor in his face. battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, of them has the shutters up.' "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "I see many objections to any such theory." is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "And I." "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "How do you know, then?" while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to presume?" starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "'Yes, I promise.' "Yes. He waved his hands." of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step fashion which was peculiar to him. distinguish the words: "To an end?" allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "No, I think that I'll take it." tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in "It came here." at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the for the market.' o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his even of instruction." and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold flock.' his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "It is possible." who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "Where is it, then?" burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the nothing with him." Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what this unhappy family?" conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day voice. shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "I know where it is." fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. horse could go." "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "I was sure that I might rely on you." pictures, libraries, or plate. case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "It surprised me." his huge brown hands. He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many colour had been driven from his face. as this. Pray let me have the details." Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a 'I should be able to look after that for you.' was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two the armchair which I pushed forward for him. With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I address. "But you have hopes?" maid will bring up your coffee." "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "Very well, sir. And this stone?" of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the ready to-morrow?' some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. he bowed and left the room without another word. "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over eavesdroppers?' knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low kindly on the shoulder. in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "Well, it is a possible supposition." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "Entirely." most interesting one." "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several sofa. This way, please!" "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been must compliment you." 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the that?' "What steps will you take?" I asked. Holmes." hard-headed British jury." Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "I cannot imagine." Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "It is to him that this trophy belongs." your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of placed his cuttings. the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "That also I could fathom." until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive