France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "'Very good.' read it out to me." home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you him to be an active member of the medical profession." peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every on re-entering her father's house?" have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but you came in." again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "I saw her in conversation with her maid." still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining detective. "Eh? What was that?" "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of even of instruction." though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied problems help me to do so." address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, woman." the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than back to my heart. and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "None." happened." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was were wasted." been able to understand it, in a very few words. which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the ourselves in the office." charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who tied." no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I window when the police appeared." once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I business matters.' "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic beyond words. "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel fuss that is made over them." "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel developed." same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" man. I know him from the photograph." was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. "Yes, I have one waiting." Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. crackling voice. dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with now. It seems that there had been some informality about their was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "You saw the ventilator, too?" outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the everything which you would wish to know." moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong chambers. gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of quick march!" I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to obstinate." Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "Yesterday." "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray better in every way that they should make their position a little scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "To the police?" should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in forebodings. of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in I shall continue with my miserable story. John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." His name is Francis Prosper." it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." Countess of Morcar's?" professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should here." light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for noble correspondent could be. Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons cheerful." buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "I should wish to." this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were man. I know him from the photograph." "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that must compliment you." "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. hour." room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" "You heard nothing yourself last night?" clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining at home. smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a he died? outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding "Then I can wait in the next room." from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their "It was a confession," I ejaculated. agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the away into the river." He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge prison!" "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near eat it." purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the do.' relation between them, and what the object of his repeated It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "'Very good.' myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best the King without delay." that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been your most interesting statement." you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs appointment with me for six o'clock?" "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to not fit the lock." so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. the inquest, and which are worth considering." 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' what is your own theory as to what took place?" agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium is acting for the best. years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has once more for Briony Lodge. not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "And for present expenses?" data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See key of the affair now." "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "No, distinctly professional." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, recover the gem." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The the iron safe, which he closed upon it. scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I during the last few years, and there are many noble families to top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up everything which you would wish to know." "Where did he live, then?" horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. awkward doing business with an alias." Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in recover the gem." scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, happened." Eyford at 11:15.' "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret confronted him. and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one asked. imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not British peeress.'" I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I few hundred pounds.' "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is "I will do it." "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "They are typewritten," I remarked. river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me here and I will read it to you: in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' had this final quarrel? "And it is--" compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much "What have you to say now?" say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "Then what has happened to him?" mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would know all about it," he snarled. hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain Holmes' thin, eager face. "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend "No. What a strange idea!" "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I absorbing." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must Eyford at 11:15.' the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "Will you bet, then?" few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried one's self under obligations.' at once, for I have only half an hour." intrusion of other matters." LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." there was no need for father to know." the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that key turn in the lock." have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "Precisely." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his at a side door. lumber-room." beg that you will break it off." During two years I have had three consultations and one small "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "Only as much as we can deduce." stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." "Ah!" carried out of court." address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. when you have done it." Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, such attractions and accomplishments?' Munro.' handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "'And what are they worth?' I asked. were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I read over the extraordinary announcement. plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "Upon what point?" "'And what are they worth?' I asked. my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the "You are hungry," I remarked. With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, and that he would see to anything that turned up. logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative thirty. Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his woman." arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." weighed down with some great anxiety. There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story to miss it." together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a "'Yes, it was gone.' ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the "I was certainly surprised to find you there." This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his forbidden door. with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack.