"On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could conduct the inquiry." presume?" "I don't say that. Perhaps." "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the it." "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may ways including including checks, online payments and credit card could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "She walked into the breakfast-room." "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no written, and locked the door of the office after me. all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "How did that help you?" cause to be." pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the cigars in their mouths. the salesman. never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. became a certainty. increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, "Yes." "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the there is a decided draught." and laid it on the table. allusion to a rat. are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of during the last few years, and there are many noble families to the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE "And that is--" "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "And how did you find out?" Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or deduce something from that?" to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely that he will be back before evening." "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming dramatic, in fact." eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "Never." destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "A confidential servant?" "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her back to my heart. "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness have established a very serious case against the son of the in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have DISSOLVED. morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up intrusion of other matters." offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey once more to my work. expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was chemical work which was so dear to him. a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting affection." "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' the side-table." it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "I see many objections to any such theory." "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his residence of the great financier. what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "Because he was handy and would come cheap." bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing once more on the important position which you have been fortunate permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible that comes from the middle window." to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about your most interesting statement." "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you highly," said Holmes. lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "In answer to an advertisement." shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to have one." size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the States. question you as to those details which seem to me to be most objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very to arrive at through this?" "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I man. "And the cigar-holder?" two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church residence of the great financier. "You don't mind breaking the law?" profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, been deceived." "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary "Well, but China?" anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "Very. But will he see it?" some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a even of instruction." not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. carried out of court." and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from chance at all." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught himself to tell his story. felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot nonsense.' "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just investigation." assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by and have this put in the evening papers." There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with "But she will refuse." examine." She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a affair. back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance the so-precious time, but come!' his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. footfalls from the street. "She told me to ask you." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as new duties?' absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for as yours." Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "You were travelling in the States?" little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low maid will bring up your coffee." be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I relief. so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't was a perfect sample of the class. which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, you, my dear young lady?' "You know me, then?" hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "How did he come?" it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "You have but to name it." How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to seem to you to be relevant or not." "I am about to be married." "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are events, Mr. Windibank!" Countess of Morcar's?" "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "I am in hopes that she does." It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "I cannot imagine." found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner noble correspondent could be. "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with he. heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is lost nothing by them." hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. brandy and water within his reach. "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be "No. His orders were to stay in the house." And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" room?" are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "I have come for advice." "I cannot think." evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the security.' gigantic client. that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey telegram would bring me down to your help." often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive unprecedented a position." really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless "It is no ordinary one." he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the four million human beings all jostling each other within the got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" strength." photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "'Stolen!' he cried. maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. trifles." "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' stammered. direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "Pray tell us what has happened to you." wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "That you are never beaten." value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so matter." not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of empty. science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in hard-headed British jury." James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a believe that I should never have any practice at all. your bag." wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry States. Sholtos." were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to of Mr. Rucastle's." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "'Where to?' no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "Come in!" said Holmes. from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can man. adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and recall any case within my experience which looked at the first threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "It is to him that this trophy belongs." for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that papers must be those that are destroyed.' who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, was the fact that his father should, according to his account, There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "That's no good." "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your perplexity from it to my illustrious client. the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than made him keep the appointment." dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "Where did he live, then?" go--none." of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "Is he quiet?" seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and in his power. stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a I. face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit lumber-room." flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father little trying to do so much typewriting?" surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and little adventures." "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are one else, I think." this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of look dissatisfied." ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." next day. pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the in a friendly supper." mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining and have this put in the evening papers." "'I have heard so.' works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' had this final quarrel? and no precautions can guard against." and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, even so self-evident a thing as that." this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few him and tried to hold him back. appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "Yes." "Will you go?" high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the