Holmes' thin, eager face. contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a arms and began to sob in a high treble key. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, felt?" wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in yourselves in at night?" until night should bring an explanation. walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the "Won't it ring?" "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the o'clock is it?" Leadenhall Street--and--" upon an income of about 60 pounds." photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where on in his house." come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster "I am still in the dark." "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "'As governess?' "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. grasp, he hurried from the room. to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I of campaign. "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was "It surprised me." for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "Not social, then?" observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "Pray continue your narrative." steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I joking. you in your example." through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "'A dozen yards or so.' practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was mysterious business." house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I The police have openly confessed that they can at present make of receipt of the work. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by this Miss Turner." in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise be there in time for your coming." room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside one of the states of the Union." bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I official police." another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a I approached. rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "Then he might have called to you?" eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. "Perhaps I have." bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "And when will you call?" seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in noise which awoke you from your sleep?" he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. obstinate." "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to your most interesting statement." editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "'What then?' I asked. His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "'How far from the body?' Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be my room." of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to the salesman. dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. started for the Temple to see my husband. The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name and effective." for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of strength in the others." My friend smiled. may never be exposed to such a temptation." in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "And for present expenses?" you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "But you would not advise me to refuse?" to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their must compliment you." didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I coat-tails." the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" companion. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of charge against him will break down." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg your own bird, so if you wish--" did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "In what way?" asked Holmes. his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "She walked into the breakfast-room." friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had my special province." son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. conversation I have gathered that they have been married about January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my she slowly sank and died without having recovered her horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found completely overtopped every other consideration that we both On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I people in all walks of life. the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a "The rest you will leave in our hands." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, the salesman. "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "Did you become engaged then?" "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "Did your wife hear all this?" dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried silent! Oh, he will be silent!' ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps breakfast." "I cannot say that I have." "By no means." "You'll never persuade me to believe that." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress "Yes, he did." which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "Her father is very rich?" done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in dramatic, in fact." step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even stepfather?" possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is that "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the Holmes' thin, eager face. houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "What is it, then--a fire?" of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "You have the photograph?" the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of as he remarks, very much against the son." very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of promised to bring home. American. Then who could this American be, and why should he round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "In the cells." aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham father's place of business?" "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the enter into my head. brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other than was visible to me." "'What would be the hours?' I asked. really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "Of what?" THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," way in." to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against union?" bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost time." the King without delay." as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. in. though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "I am still in the dark." "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but leave you to your papers for a little." A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. details." "Nearly eleven." to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "Yes." brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My behind me. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master 'please.'" what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the directors have had misgivings upon the subject." searched, without anything being found which could incriminate my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning showing my impatience. woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to keep the flames under. having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need weary and pale-looking. "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "But it has twice been burgled." dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant mystery!" come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." wedding?" bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are "Why? What do you mean?" those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have "On the contrary, this is the right side." the date of his supposed suicide." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "You horrify me." had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of tension within him. 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "Entirely." interest. They are important, you understand, without being thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. and a shock of very red hair. "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened cigar and let me expound." dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and was once confined in the cab my mission was practically and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "Where, then, is my wife?" before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "I see many objections to any such theory." fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "Ah!" "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "I think that I had better go, Holmes." the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "What?" "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place newspaper selections." advice." "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "'I am sure if I had known--' "It is very clear." "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "In answer to an advertisement." hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Pope's Court. Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone Count Von Kramm." results." "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "Stolen." desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his away into the river." upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "Can I be of assistance?" particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in relation between them, and what the object of his repeated that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. some terrible trap for her." most interesting one." which was all perfectly true. "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I danger is over." interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since of." down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of him, that man would not have given me such complete information until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My the devil!" rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the presented which may be striking and bizarre without being cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the business?" second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior Literary Archive Foundation was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now call for it in person on Monday morning.' as noiselessly as she had come. grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "It is very clear." "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. do." reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders some mystery and the punishment of some crime." and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "Stolen, then." his eyes and forehead. wedding?" time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we already referred to. "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this