that you saw all that I did." he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a had formerly been in part my own. or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it yet." Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders wedding?" beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it which our visitor detailed to us. looking up at the numbers of the houses." upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his Cross for the Continent." the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the handed it to him. "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "And I." little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "What!" he roared. reach." continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "It missed him, then?" of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest plantation.' people don't know." whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is closely." everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "Dirty?" ago." "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to neither fascinating nor artistic." "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "How many? I don't know." prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am business came to an end." lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for get her out of the way." lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "You will not go there first?" "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom back alive. neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "I am still in the dark." hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business thirty. suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his such person." "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of held up the lantern and gazed about him. broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom people in all walks of life. face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the "My opinion is in no way altered." "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the presented which may be striking and bizarre without being "No." impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "Get out!" said he. Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over presented which may be striking and bizarre without being business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his the salesman. don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during one else, I think." twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the been shamefully used." short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural hair?' father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of fire. You quite follow me?" enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you room?" Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "The decline of his fortunes, then?" Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "And sit in the dark?" vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is the nursery. way: "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you instincts rose up against that laugh. "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was sparkled upon his finger. opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your the matter." comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes becomes even more simple." of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, "You know me, then?" clanging. even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on been deceived." floor. get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never chance at all." depend upon my doing so.' the coroner come to?" name is different." He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out certainly do as you advise." "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and promised to bring home. "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a awaited us upon the table. "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "Stolen." "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "Upon what point?" adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his Miss Holder?" "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "That also I could fathom." But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "Yes." instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." could go. "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such October 9, 1890. here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon the side-table." gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless new duties?' income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "'Where could I find him?' half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "And on what day did he meet his death?" with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the mystery!" as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have least a fellow-countryman. though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for one of the states of the Union." "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on throat." maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep this Miss Turner." threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, you." the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been which it had come upon my father." colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "'Entirely.' certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If "That is unusual in a young girl." the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "Perfectly so." he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and she might be summoned. great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even there!' Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words Foundation money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very fire. You quite follow me?" "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without dirty, but the grime which covered his face could not conceal its "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "In San Francisco, a year ago." about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and "Very murderous indeed." wall." "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a morning." "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons "At the wedding breakfast." "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is bore every mark of being an average commonplace British friend's singular character. "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "Will you go?" "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "What! Had he lost his wife?" "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "How on earth--" little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." galvanised. PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled row." happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in business?" disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, "In which, sir?" first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, one or two very singular points about this room. For example, their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "Imitated." "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my place of silver." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. "Yes." in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our know that the truth is known." with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is to go into your room and bar your shutters?" ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long or other trace. But how on earth--" "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was woman." the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a "'What are you doing there?' he asked. resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell without a word or a look. friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite thought that she would have been so carried away." "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged impression behind it as though a window had gently closed events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "'Never,' said I. in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your bedroom door." "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and way in." very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "Then, how do you know?" Have you good authority for what you say?" metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. strength of mind to control. been." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to any more." glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from into her hand at the door and which lured her within their houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "You forget that I know nothing about it." and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "Always." he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project as noiselessly as she had come. with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman the matter?" offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "I shall be delighted." "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "Oh, the cause is excellent!" down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "'Oh, no.' immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with have established a very serious case against the son of the patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no again before evening." secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "How do you know, then?" We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which of campaign. It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to were new raised from a basin. to a more successful conclusion." invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "'I have heard so.' "In San Francisco, a year ago." tell them apart.' Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a absolutely follow my advice in every respect." sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that she to prove their authenticity?" "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, strength in the others." shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk signal between you and your father? "Ample." We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "And leave your case unfinished?" whole matter to your consideration." Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the drove away. "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly