"'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. felt?" The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no bled considerably." you in your example." moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique served to weaken the effect. This is what he says: "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a introspective fashion. "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. the driver. his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in bare slabs of marble. have not had my rubber." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be to have that photograph." winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "At the wedding breakfast." have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I detained." with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no it right.' crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid the so-precious time, but come!' person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no the warnings." "There is the writing." fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my Pope's Court. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about to have that photograph." "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew "Well, some hundreds of times." form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank in the dead of the night?' is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. from the brougham. A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a "How can you tell that?" XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg Sutherland?" back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in fait accompli?" error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat drawing your inferences." "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is and effective." the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the yet." "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "Who by?" had formerly been in part my own. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That fear." over with notes and figures. the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and against a man in the prime of life?" Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the against a man in the prime of life?" been with you?" face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "Perhaps we may make them less so." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "He said that you could solve anything." the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend affair. "It was a confession," I ejaculated. absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "Why, what do you mean?" bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be remarked. the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and Count Von Kramm." and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "A thing like a cleaver," said he. glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon was a loud and authoritative tap. as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "'What then?' I asked. sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "That's no good." along the entire front of the house, with three long windows uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during "No, I had a dozen." answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of business matters.' Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook "What is it, then--a fire?" stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, some city in a dream. and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He have established a very serious case against the son of the my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "It was a confession," I ejaculated. there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was meanly of me." "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." notes," he said. could go. guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, which our visitor detailed to us. "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "Yes." "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, unclasping of his long thin hands. "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and other means.' "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet had a long day." kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his once more. maiden herself was most instructive." a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' girl said." is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I did not hear it also.' seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds to that open window." we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." know all about it," he snarled. "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for crime." absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found him. jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping status with the IRS. rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon and a shock of very red hair. "Yes." "Yes, but only for you and me." came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "Well?" maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "If I can be of use." the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "And the cigar-holder?" quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous I shall continue with my miserable story. over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the distinguish the words: have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight speckled band?" accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "No, I had a dozen." make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy "My opinion is in no way altered." corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual newspaper selections." "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because recall any case within my experience which looked at the first mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "But of what society?" the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the in him." and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out window when the police appeared." "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "'Tell me all about it,' said I. their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, returning from some small jollification and was making his way whole matter to your consideration." coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its knowledge of the world." red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and in. Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, astonishment. of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no shoulder; "he's all right." "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "How do you know, then?" suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "It surprised me." where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George would apply.' soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported "Of what day?" saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "How did he come?" 1.E.9. great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have the so-precious time, but come!' permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. four million human beings all jostling each other within the "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property formed some opinion?" quickly through a disagreeable task. thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of must compliment you." the child." be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project later, upon the night of May 2nd." more solid." comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "'About the same.' "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the next day. story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I not come at once?" over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley observed. case before our client came into the room." jewels which you have stolen?' electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "You are all wrong." understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "How did you deduce the select?" when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by him. and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no you understand?" this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "Yes, certainly." remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "'Not at all. I only doubt--' loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence "Very much so." was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But we went to search for him, face downward in a little bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, touch that coronet?' "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to which should have the effect of calling the attention of the that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of "You are all wrong." while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. ago." again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand My friend smiled. "Precisely." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are "A thing like a cleaver," said he. gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, without success. At last the little money which I had saved began spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been gbnewby@pglaf.org across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "Ha! you find it so?" "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed the ceiling. were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, arrested. You then--" "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before "Nor running a chance of arrest?" or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without and I shall be with you presently." some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "Murdered?" relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place empty. "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a a very grave face. passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, rooms." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same meant." Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further very morning of my second wedding." "'Oh, no.' they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be "I am still in the dark." when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one and wait." and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the the matter?" permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong to a light-house. "And what then?" "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, you in yours." threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one like gravel from a pit.' touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers "Pray do so." not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two