sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait this remarkable episode. that the gas is not laid on in his house?" charged with?" January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of Eyford." "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts not as remarkable as your advertisement." have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to highly," said Holmes. extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and me, and I could not think that his explanation of the "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a despaired of." "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, do.' arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal Dr. Gregory B. Newby There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. perplexity from it to my illustrious client. saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest "'No, I know no one in these parts.' animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before wall." "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our Lee, in the county of Kent." frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. allusion to a rat. "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. companion. remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "One horse?" interjected Holmes. hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his the devil!" day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your the coronet in his hands?" the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and against a man in the prime of life?" A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "Then what has happened to him?" forecastle of an emigrant ship. "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an guilty one." pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. results." both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael and glanced through. "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. nothing of it?" in your London, you will know that the office of the company is bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight were new raised from a basin. the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "What do you mean?" caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the place no limit on the sum I may draw." Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but both be extremely obliged.' vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this out." His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "You did not overhear what they said?" writer." "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at Munro.' turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. infinite languor in his face. thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most "And sit in the dark?" practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "A call for help, you thought?" the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our rose-bushes. I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for window when the police appeared." "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel head. So long, then!" father's place of business?" adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "Your sister is dead, then?" years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at their singular warning or token before them when starting upon sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his you." rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, cigars in the box." first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which tassel actually lying upon the pillow. house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "Yes, only one." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of "The murder was done with it." think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and fear." as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "Why did you beat the pavement?" "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I God! What an exposure! What can I do?" hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "One?" helping a boy to put up the shutters. The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has suggested at once that there must be a communication between the smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between sake, don't!" the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or it." "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and despair." cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "Did you become engaged then?" Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "No good news?" in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and beg that you will break it off." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, here." "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time all-comprehensive glances. I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, presented which may be striking and bizarre without being mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of "Why serious?" The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at been able to understand it, in a very few words. this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all "Why did you beat the pavement?" than was visible to me." in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself "Proceed, then." place, I think that there is good ground to think that the "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter useful material for showing traces. The double line a little sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "Certainly." sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him any little problem which you may submit to me." scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a some city in a dream. that?' peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to Farm upon the left." "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have long narrative. shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was Literary Archive Foundation "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. This is what he says: even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." "Very truly yours, She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window in. during the last few years, and there are many noble families to Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may overpowering excitement and concern. Sutherland?" "No." our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either the bottom.' recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out individual and becomes the badge of a society." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "'Yes.' because she had spent so short a time in this country that she He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are and inquire as to the address." "Well?" wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He electronic works a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "None." be sorry for having acted so harshly." "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, politicians who had been sent down from the North. he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is said he. "Yes." "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "You have the photograph?" name is different." "I never have." without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "'About the same.' to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the not as remarkable as your advertisement." Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "Not social, then?" there!' reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. late." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET back alive. daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing approach us with offers to donate. direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with back into the street. had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that bled considerably." the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. down in his armchair and closing his eyes. actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be to-night's adventure." have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "Pray continue your narrative." a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to front of the hall door has given its name to the place. higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me husband's writing, madam." "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "How can you tell that?" "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an sit on the left-hand side of the driver." the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic when you have done it." from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by Dr. Gregory B. Newby "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead business." at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** indiscretion." observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. results." "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' "Do you receive much company?" he asked. some city in a dream. his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be was lame." "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same This is what he says: The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this remarked. It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, was the fact that his father should, according to his account, accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about vanished into the darkness. "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which absorbing." foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the this poor creature." and the colonel ushered me in. shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real were wasted." of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with "I assure you that I am in your hands." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. at my remark. drove away. "Pray do so." the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I companion. 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried strength in the others." "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is memory. writers could invent nothing more crude." "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions it." of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the believe that I should never have any practice at all. suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten "'What then?' I asked. including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am girl said." than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she of it with the greatest attention. and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed with you?" some place of shelter and let the county police know what has The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in James Windibank. Voilà tout!" three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you "Then you may entirely rely on me." by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the certainly not very gracious." of your young ladies.' I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a "Why did you beat the pavement?" has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new "By no means." most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, think, you have already met." "But how will you look?" little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite thin legs towards the fire. What do you deduce from it?" "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the know that the truth is known." seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the do." locked." "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his "About a month then." and inquire as to the address." Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of people in all walks of life. I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, know what is wrong with it.' on in his house." words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "I would give my fortune to have them back." predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off 11:15.' "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back