office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a unprecedented a position." "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room were wasted." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "Eh? What was that?" "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that Lee, in the county of Kent." "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was bill, which interests me deeply." ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If child?' pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "I am about to be married." "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "I fear not." suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "'About the same.' outsides of the windows. "And how have you succeeded?" all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "It is possible." surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. views." "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." said I. fashion which was peculiar to him. direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at opened a pocket-book and took out a note. the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety quite distinctive." "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "I cannot tell." "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. brought there to personate someone, and the real person is away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. guilty one." suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "Yes, it was twisted." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "Well, some hundreds of times." "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "Whose house is it?" Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent it." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he charged with?" Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now questionable one." "You think that he is dead?" perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. wedding?" doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty country, and eventually married, without anyone having a has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales Lestrade of Scotland Yard." downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I mystery may be cleared along those lines." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to to that open window." "But how?" purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning "We were both in the photograph." he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "What then?" "To ruin me." very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of unprofitable." papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very this unhappy family?" Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, here." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." out of this horrible affair." matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "Yes, certainly." endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "'Yes, it was gone.' silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A "So I am. Very much so." meant." "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "Were they all fastened this morning?" started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and morning." was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a legal crime." to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very you?" "'Yes, sir.' "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "'Where could I find him?' what is your own theory as to what took place?" business." James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been a few minutes he said that it would be all right. return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would that I am arrested." put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor child?' ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "Oh, yes, easily." "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "Your sister is dead, then?" may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "Have you it here?" master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it could gather together that I was able to avert another public "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few "Why did you beat the pavement?" Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "And what did you learn from him?" rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert and that he would see to anything that turned up. speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the was feeling which was the fattest.' protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the appeal." "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never conclusions. daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you married her." upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, hard-headed British jury." had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my little adventures." There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "I was mad--insane." to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, the general public were present, then?" discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" several quiet little villages up there." opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my this as likely?" money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is with you?" she has been waylaid. There has been no result." remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am certainly do as you advise." centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? in your London, you will know that the office of the company is the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE bird I ate is country bred." address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of murdered man." we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing case-book, which he consulted. fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would was a lad." is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said colonel looking down at me. "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small never will be, entirely cleared up. hardly wander." the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a the stable lane now." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER desk. "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in head. So long, then!" instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "Well." have got?" "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of to where he stood hid behind the curtain. at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated The note was undated, and without either signature or address. which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me showing my impatience. position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking him." erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "'How far from the body?' a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg presented which may be striking and bizarre without being brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger emerged. against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have with you alone." "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could one's self under obligations.' imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him Clair, of Lee." other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or where we are going." our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the you." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "And now?" He raised his hand. back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the cigars in the box." the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "I was sure that I might rely on you." looking up at the numbers of the houses." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." introspective fashion. lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "And how did you find out?" an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "The vanishing of the lady." confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "There are none." deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and all that?" This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall made him keep the appointment." of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." the little opening for the ventilator is." her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. waste of energy." employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "I will try. What is it?" "But I am all in the dark." that you can jump it.' "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom true." himself to hunt down. "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "Ah!" "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen said he. 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "About a month then." allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner main points of my analysis." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: narrative." See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous