enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "We must have a cab." would apply.' up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who coat-tails." Surrey." volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden one or two very singular points about this room. For example, his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "Yes, from Horsham." Holmes' face clouded over. send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. depend upon your compliance." "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "Look there!" said he. delighted to hear it," he said. smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian flock.' the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You into her hand at the door and which lured her within their crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was to where he stood hid behind the curtain. a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "Which are?" spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we "What! a murderous attack?" "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland Chief Executive and Director "Where is it, then?" "And now?" I asked. "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his in one or two places in England?' better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "In heaven's name, what for?" engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had the Assizes." sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over locked. confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of to have been novel and of interest." along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "My own seal." difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many the driver. I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they followed. likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I records." any." "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly note?" Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" Count Von Kramm." lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill opened the door, and slipped through. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest sake, don't!" property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a views." Holmes' thin, eager face. "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same Leadenhall Street--and--" I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall examine." wedding?" lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We this poor creature." shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." you, my dear young lady?' "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have locked. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." Pool. hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of to tell." one which it was hard to resist. social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always "I guessed as much." door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a "Ample." doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." yards of it?' "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and of them has the shutters up.' "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to Holmes' face clouded over. such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "'Ten to two.' in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed "Whose house is it?" half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "What have you done?" asked Holmes. more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that business at Coburg Square is serious." "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea married her." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" have one." headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "Pray continue your narrative." LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Never." diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this to Leatherhead. arms and began to sob in a high treble key. and all of them with the keenest interest. know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at into her hand at the door and which lured her within their presented which may be striking and bizarre without being my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "What is it, then--a fire?" happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do chill to my heart. "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked Dr. Gregory B. Newby not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, "Was there a secret marriage?" should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "In what way?" asked Holmes. "That is possible." off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted said I. it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "Pray be precise as to details," said he. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." second window is the one that I jumped from." as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when never came back." son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would signal between you and your father? "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "I shall be delighted." road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, gives a meaning to it." of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "I cannot think." "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point telegram would bring me down to your help." my former friend and companion. a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This "Yes, but only for you and me." knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke papers on the sundial.'" not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get at my remark. they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other out." process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but brandy and water within his reach. appeal." that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not the running down." "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." foresight and the moral retrogression?" official police." low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual friend's singular character. serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my the matter?" beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "I assure you that I am in your hands." "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt fluttered off among the others. Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to spare." 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said name is different." tied." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were point in the dark hollow of his hand. grasp, he hurried from the room. backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered touch that coronet?' relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "And Irene Adler?" inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you villagers almost as much as their master. desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is do.' to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary seem to you to be relevant or not." "'Entirely.' have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a intrusion of other matters." "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end who was a member of your goose club." 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "I have seen the police." before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the is entirely a question of barometric pressure." photograph?" could gather together that I was able to avert another public 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET as he remarks, very much against the son." was feeling which was the fattest.' "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "Why did you beat the pavement?" "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a detective. very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no http://gutenberg.net/license). and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most train from Paddington which would bring you there at about band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 hard-headed British jury." arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled I approached. entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the must be when I saw the door open.' really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the room had already been engaged for us. "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." you." Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with case-book, which he consulted. "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into tear off another piece?' James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in "And is that all?" "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. forbidden door. like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." will find little credit to be gained out of this case." said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "What do you mean?" would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and cigar and let me expound." "No, I think that I'll take it." registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "I am still in the dark." re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included "Nor running a chance of arrest?" laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the "And Miss Sutherland?" 'I should be able to look after that for you.' "A call for help, you thought?" light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the chambers. and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel gone before you can get him to hospital." "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else During two years I have had three consultations and one small zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest figure." out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. morning." is now desirous of getting those letters back." "Certainly." charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and the stones. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "By train from Waterloo." I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning my secret was safe in his possession. 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the Munro.' you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a less than 26s. 4d. yourselves in at night?" him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very time." few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of electronic works which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old morning." window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "I will do it." squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So weary and pale-looking. once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "Yesterday." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "I should be immensely obliged to you." It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie?