problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." whereabouts. it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I For additional contact information: three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." upon an income of about 60 pounds." "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. Mary, has deserted me." with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding following enigmatical notices: "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" thirty. down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, than to us. actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "Awake, Watson?" he asked. have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "Come in!" said he. "And why in hopes?" The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and bell. Holmes whistled. Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "I will not look." delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I mystery may be cleared along those lines." other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will long narrative. Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in she slowly sank and died without having recovered her wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" had picked up in the wood. burst into a hearty fit of laughter. true." "I see no marks." walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "Not particularly." "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "'Certainly,' I answered. Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. have had none more fantastic than this." was already answered. From what you have told me I think that it is possible that had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "Now, then, what's the last entry?" As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that from the brougham. contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the tapping his fingers upon the table. was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "He disappeared so suddenly." inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "No, but the enclosure is." has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner bird of prey. "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of I approached. bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler for and were ordered to this address. "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 get her out of the way." "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must their singular warning or token before them when starting upon window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then this unhappy family?" "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so six. Come in!" humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He national property. I was determined that the law should have its THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe fasten all the windows?" Sutherland. "And is that all?" gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. Surrey." It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "'What, the red-headed man?' simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the ashen face. long narrative. was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "In San Francisco, a year ago." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be knowledge of the world." should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of tassel actually lying upon the pillow. impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do waste of energy." "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time only touch the interest." meanly of me." your equipment. present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. more terrible than the truth. "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very been able to understand it, in a very few words. "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the overpowering excitement and concern. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have have accepted such a situation. "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up hour." could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly indiscretion." France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "He is still with you, I presume?" pierced for earrings?" which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" "You horrify me!" "Well?" too. produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "You were travelling in the States?" fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of do you make of it all?" which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, as the one I chose?' age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles exactly what you advise." deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a for securing the situation." savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "Have you it here?" he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the "You have but to name it." from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "Witness: I must still refuse. against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be asked with his eyes open. horse could go." opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a "They are typewritten," I remarked. original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I existence." figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed certainly not very gracious." My friend smiled. asked. connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When a very grave face. everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place populous neighbourhood." "It surprised me." "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the him to go away.' "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. tension within him. visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "What is it?" "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" of his shoulders. end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of the stable lane now." quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and "Quite so. She has her freedom." clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "Eh? What was that?" the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "He is dead," cried several voices. "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' McCarthy's innocence. go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for with frightened eyes at his accuser. "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did a good hundred miles off by now." "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in "Witness: It was. "And from a noble client?" cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I and glanced through. obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in License. You must require such a user to return or the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist it." He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, acted in my house last night?" continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "How on earth--" feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to recover the gem." "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not you?' There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is For additional contact information: "But I am all in the dark." "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and morning." lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "I shall most certainly do so." truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, or in danger--" the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was ceremony." might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts how narrow had been my escape. sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "'And the work?' "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge of campaign. while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "I beg pardon." "'Ten to two.' with you?" cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "Never to return." danger is over." extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon of fine shops and stately business premises that they really clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening to have that photograph." fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa "And leave your case unfinished?" "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the if I call to-morrow?" of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "It is no ordinary one." "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, affair. determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for Sholtos." key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "To an English lawyer named Norton." woven round him. sofa. This way, please!" "Not in the least." "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced which we had just quitted. "Now, then, what's the last entry?" idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or kind enough to tell me what I should do." lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "Who by?" "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, vault. "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your and inquire as to the address." Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We there." have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. the warnings." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste Young McCarthy must be got off, however." the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in events, Mr. Windibank!" the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over his huge brown hands. He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily him!" determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, new duties?' compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I means taking possession of that which another person has a prior "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "In what way?" asked Holmes. of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were His smile broadened. One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. for the market.' "It was an hour's good drive." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated occurred." arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his page at http://pglaf.org have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could subject to the trademark license, especially commercial time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the 1.E.9. "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so