"They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." "Two days later this same performance was gone through under the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. peculiar to him. cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs lids now and glanced across at his visitor. assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "Do you receive much company?" he asked. "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would sparkled upon his finger. half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "And that is--" Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this "I shall most certainly do so." Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "No. What a strange idea!" blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has fishes. year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant bedroom door." certainly do as you advise." her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the locked." is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind the tragedy. to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it populous neighbourhood." "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which you." beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the pictures, libraries, or plate. I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "'Oh, no.' for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary province." Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. "Yes. He waved his hands." "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, "It is very clear." would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "10th. John Swain cleared. unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. behind me. behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed call for protection in the marriage market, for the present five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, over with notes and figures. reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of giving me time to thank him. It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our coroner's jury." get her out of the way." criminal. We have already had experience of such." arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point that I may have something better before very many minutes are words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons envelope. Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My this remarkable episode. bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of could not account in any way for the presence of the missing to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, it." "Never." we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small row." lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may helping a boy to put up the shutters. behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce prove to be little relation between the different incidents of attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "It is possible." the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. client, rising. entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones "And you thought he was pulled back?" drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when some terrible trap for her." as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, way in everything. upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped seen the man in the road." brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "'And what are they worth?' I asked. been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our The note was undated, and without either signature or address. one of them." showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "It goes to the housekeeper's room." and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "By no means." "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." breakfast?" "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the "The doctor?" air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." one else, I think." King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might ways of our fellow-men." "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the Munro.' "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business "You are all wrong." "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural hereditary King of Bohemia." data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last "I will try. What is it?" of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day have I gained?" Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "It surprised me." status with the IRS. cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is entirely lost his self-respect." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a useful material for showing traces. The double line a little will not take me long to tell. 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime "But the mystery?" submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "An accident, I presume?" matters immensely." of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "Yes, from Horsham." most important business. It is probable that he will be away all think you a quite exceptional woman." "No." "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have yourselves in at night?" Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land "'What would be the hours?' I asked. sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He upon the shelf for the interim." I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and some place of shelter and let the county police know what has Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good "You did not overhear what they said?" of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, tied." suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." been shamefully used." deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; everything which you would wish to know." Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. because she had spent so short a time in this country that she card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I "Come in!" said he. floor. His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "What is it?" "And is that all?" enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the the room while you explain this matter?" has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "Come in!" said Holmes. other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone highroad, where all traces were lost. profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson now. It seems that there had been some informality about their bed dies. Does not that strike you?" down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "On your arm?" "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There in him." simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your the bed, and you in that chair." "But she could not love him." Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the front of me. that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared Does that suggest anything?" Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or to arrive at through this?" we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." to where he stood hid behind the curtain. John Swain, of St. Augustine. him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "The Coroner: What do you mean? "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less have an American origin." "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "'How far from the body?' pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "That is not always so easy." "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room his fortune, and I went back to pa. were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. once more to my work. trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton key turn in the lock." admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "Your sister is dead, then?" Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account was a lad." upon the shelf for the interim." you." "Can I be of assistance?" perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses interested in these little problems, and since you are good which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "'And what are they worth?' I asked. "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in exactly what you advise." manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would you came in." Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this outside. surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save to-night." along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not garden below. "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "Ten will be early enough." was not a bird to be seen there. process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official DAMAGE. point in the dark hollow of his hand. abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "'Yes.' we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their "It surprised me." Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that lips." edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was her also." there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "Not in the least." "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really seven miles from Eyford Station.' matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock developed." "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg case before our client came into the room." Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then