Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a back into the street. whether it answered to the description of any of their are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "And it is--" mystery." world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. secret." "Ah, but I was recommended to you." Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I never to learn it at all." closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few new duties?' meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa before, for it was considerably after midnight. Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself "Thank you. Pray proceed." friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour Again Holmes raved in the air. the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "That also I could fathom." cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "Has he come with you to-night?" neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the good-night and bustled off upon her way. "Married! When?" Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "'A dozen yards or so.' Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the towards the blaze. works. See paragraph 1.E below. "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to will be renamed. the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and is a common subject for conversation. however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does cigar and let me expound." which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "To ruin me." also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "What I expected to see." and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, Cross for the Continent." from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by think, you have already met." unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "Where, indeed?" though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. "And why?" three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say get her out of the way." "Then the page we have seen--" all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more people in all walks of life. it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "I shall be delighted." nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "It was a confession," I ejaculated. suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "Really! You surprise me." platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed entirely lost his self-respect." passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "To the police?" This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill formed some opinion?" suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the you, my dear young lady?' "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the Serpentine Avenue. explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a there were so many in the whole country as were brought together the coronet in his hands?" orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "Then, how do you know?" "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced "Well, it is a possible supposition." present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At fattened it expressly for you.' occupations.' what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains strange features which were associated with the two crimes which compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "You horrify me." "Was there a secret marriage?" roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to observed. course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and "There are none." room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "But I have heard all that you have heard." "No good news?" Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not past. and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "Then you may entirely rely on me." every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, interest. They are important, you understand, without being "You have carte blanche." card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. that he has suffered." "But how?" appeared upon the scene." light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "I have a cab outside." Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "No?" go--none." and your relations to her." wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "I will do it." suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting Street. whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not window when the police appeared." Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. him to be an active member of the medical profession." transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "But it has twice been burgled." Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and burst out into a roar of laughter. are, and they are waiting for us." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." official police." offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "Then I can wait in the next room." They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. of Fenchurch Street." the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." some terrible trap for her." Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting was a lad." sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' II. number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or Dr. Gregory B. Newby Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. "In what way?" asked Holmes. "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, out of this horrible affair." Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden little adventures." "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is salesman. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the signal between you and your father? had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." I am not easy in my mind about them." There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an it. common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "Yes, he did." devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and both be extremely obliged.' Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have our word." despair." into the room. could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very him, that man would not have given me such complete information little trying to do so much typewriting?" there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake already been minutely examined." ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when that he will be back before evening." part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going round and wave him away like that.' circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a something of him before." "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, in the hope of finding them." "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to works. into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, copied or distributed: much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. standing smiling on the door-step. "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's at home. "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our For additional contact information: we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "Bought." about here speaks of his kindness to him." "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY "'What do you call purely nominal?' said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she hardly wander." the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a his face which made him a very different person to the round, we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my note?" dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the yourselves in at night?" once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. towards the blaze. Munro.' subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "There is the writing." the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "One?" way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker again before evening." "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "Her father is very rich?" affection." thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "In answer to an advertisement." young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise comes from the middle window." XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To within hail.' Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that newspaper selections." and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "'Ample.' "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. than was visible to me." always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant front of me. calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. bearing upon the case." "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "Ha! you find it so?" strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow more solid." a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my to me. "Thank you. And your address?" at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I for the market.' "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the floor. "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was your equipment. lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg been shamefully used." Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. as this. Pray let me have the details." from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. dead, shall be safe with us." want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has would apply.' like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "The knees of his trousers." man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "Really! You surprise me." rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would coroner's jury." "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on status with the IRS. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his some terrible trap for her." has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "What steps will you take?" I asked. "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "It was a confession," I ejaculated. There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has guilty parties." former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his