revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from "The murder was done with it." "I guessed as much." you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "Do you know him?" space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I passage and a tap at the door. to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "It goes to the housekeeper's room." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "But to whom?" labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the if only as a check to my own memory." It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my hair?' ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back particular state visit http://pglaf.org what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes Holmes. "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the "Really! You surprise me." have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, indeed happy." were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." any more." my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you happened." dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? undoubtedly my uncle's." bare slabs of marble. would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "Yes." loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "Your sister is dead, then?" an introduction to him?" this truth that in these little records of our cases which you be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try yet." "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press back into the street. which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from lectures into a series of tales." "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. 11:15.' my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "I am in hopes that she does." which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up been lifted and conveyed somewhere." clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or will take you up to see the machine.' you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" do.' the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he Cross for the Continent." credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, neither fascinating nor artistic." and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," not, dad?" she asked. you, my dear young lady?' it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any again." produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' country, and eventually married, without anyone having a one or two very singular points about this room. For example, Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and that he has suffered." agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as "Was she in good spirits?" box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "But what is it you wish?" "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been me. You must get home instantly and act." "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the not use it unless it is absolutely needed." very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did happened." and laid it on the table. The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and yet." once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "'I am sure that I do not know.' home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a entirely devoid of interest." a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were 1.E.9. Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. just ask you whether you had heard it.' is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that "And now?" He raised his hand. professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "It is his hat." order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. Edgeware Road. one else, I think." "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in anything to a woman, for she would have her way." direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "'Yes.' "You have carte blanche." accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a someone who had been in Australia." place no limit on the sum I may draw." enough to aid us in our search." a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." test if we have an answer to our advertisement." I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." me have 200 pounds?' the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of chamber." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "Game for a morning drive?" sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "My dear Holmes!" partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "This photograph!" any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "'What, the red-headed man?' appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which and I shall be with you presently." fasten all the windows?" "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "Will you bet, then?" "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you quite distinctive." before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen she might be summoned. writers could invent nothing more crude." on in his house." and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His her also." disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, sentimental considerations in the background which would induce direction." ourselves in the office." very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is to take care of herself." "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose fire. You quite follow me?" Where does the thing come from?' produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "Where to?" some city in a dream. "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My my little problems." rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point not personally threatened." little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." "One?" the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at advice." The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood anything to a woman, for she would have her way." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "Was there a secret marriage?" such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they matters immensely." her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough "And you don't know his address?" cup of tea. impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had I. populous neighbourhood." there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that how narrow had been my escape. fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the unprofitable." wife's character?" remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "On Monday." to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact now. It seems that there had been some informality about their of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I ways of our fellow-men." but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of sparkled upon his finger. afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so the morning and make my own way in the world.' ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one "And how did you find out?" "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered examine." sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the way in." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. astonishment. fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley them present such singular features as the strange train of Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. hand, madam?" this man was intellectual?" "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "Come in!" said Holmes. "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "Which are?" "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year of Fenchurch Street." my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing bird I ate is country bred." about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant I took the paper from him and read as follows: the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered there were so many in the whole country as were brought together out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "Where, then, is my wife?" insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened outside." "No. His orders were to stay in the house." there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after bill, which interests me deeply." through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a DISSOLVED. chemical work which was so dear to him. should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "If I can be of use." is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events good-night and bustled off upon her way. named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR chamber." accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage "But what will you do?" "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of acquaintance?" knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he hard-headed British jury." the one as in the other." Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, use an arc-and-compass breastpin." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by when your master had gone out." "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning "And help." "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily and files of the old papers, following the future career of every of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "I see no marks." "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her