watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. said he. "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an writer." outside. adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt here." "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. is," said he presently: "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect sufficient punishment." late." face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see You can understand that this register and diary may implicate appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "Yesterday." moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and wall." he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "Well?" pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? forbidden door. "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it be.' those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have started for the Temple to see my husband. really the only notable feature about the thing." Holmes' thin, eager face. The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do drove away. "I am armed." appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know and the colonel ushered me in. "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case narrative." "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be mystery." take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have and laid it on the table. of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "What have you done?" asked Holmes. Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as "It surprised me." Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the very old mansion. of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "It missed him, then?" making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of the ceiling. refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. it. "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "Won't it ring?" their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client bird of prey. not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, weighed down with some great anxiety. "Precisely." away into the river." One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An during which he might have communicated with his friend the His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. and I shall be with you presently." hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his which was all perfectly true. bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in once more for Briony Lodge. bears upon the case?" down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to depend upon your compliance." "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any business." warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it yourselves in at night?" which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "Is he quiet?" stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across colonel looking down at me. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a man. Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which mystery." you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of security.' been anything against him. He had for years been known as a is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. "Nothing." in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the suspect him." of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the open." hair?' lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some from the brougham. because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "In answer to an advertisement." down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your Dr. Gregory B. Newby tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "I will, Miss Turner." refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the that I am arrested." Pope's Court. a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." locked." "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her think, you have already met." may have an influence upon European history." sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "'Entirely.' "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand approach us with offers to donate. understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "It is very clear." the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his heavy and sharp instrument." The police have openly confessed that they can at present make was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. Does that suggest anything?" "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "How did he come?" following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the chair. I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "'What then?' I asked. door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. her also." Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to papers must be those that are destroyed.' than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the becomes even more simple." young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make Mary, has deserted me." "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this digesting their breakfasts at home." "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We himself to tell his story. "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your "It certainly sounds feasible." many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to before, for it was considerably after midnight. "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, "Witness: It was. "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a really the only notable feature about the thing." sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" for the market.' natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to back alive. been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there knowledge of the world." "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "And the cigar-holder?" bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "Tired-looking or fresh?" "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local "Look there!" said he. right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and his face. "Stoke Moran?" said he. Have you good authority for what you say?" "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "No, but the enclosure is." "Yes. He waved his hands." outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "None." weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the tail." "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, until night should bring an explanation. every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free of the efforts of the United States government and of the better have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately it right.' as he remarks, very much against the son." error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set children over to America with him, so that I found myself without questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "Where did he live, then?" was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "Nothing." Literary Archive Foundation from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "'Yes.' "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "What!" he roared. again on its way. "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society "None." months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "That also I could fathom." "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and article?" blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was when you have done it." not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the just called myself is not exactly my own." Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a some terrible trap for her." considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "You are all wrong." him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, the tragedy. "We have tried and failed." Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "Oh, yes, easily." I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven carried out of court." manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "One of the highest in England." confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start "Look there!" said he. would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and there was no need for father to know." drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door been able to understand it, in a very few words. pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very and a shock of very red hair. called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, into the bag, and made for the door. "I have seen the police." clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms make me his representative both with the servants and with the "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. "None. Neville wrote those words." question," said Holmes, smiling. trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my 1.F. the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to have got?" His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting as yours." could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the time." whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "And you can do nothing until then?" in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so round and wave him away like that.' Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "'It is locked up,' I answered.