heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The everything which you would wish to know." admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "I was mad--insane." bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and words came to my lips. "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home hair?' sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and of the vacancies.' across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The empty. James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "Yes, at the mines." the bed, and you in that chair." shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like "Very. But will he see it?" sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in bachelor.' introspective fashion. building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "Thank you. And your address?" "Stolen, then." game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "The best possible." Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is Lee, in the county of Kent." At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady silent! Oh, he will be silent!' it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We "Yes." case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock character. "Not in a good cause." with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a ready to-morrow?' "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." of the vacancies.' grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might "'Is 4 pounds a week.' Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the skylight. her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "I will get her to show me." Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a down. congratulate you again." upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the "Certainly." My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when to me. not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "How long did she speak to this Alice?" eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" to a more successful conclusion." our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "You will not go there first?" something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "I should wish to." "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a silent! Oh, he will be silent!' whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "An accident, I presume?" the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "'And what salary do you ask?' everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy very old mansion. too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that so.' "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "Married! When?" would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "It missed him, then?" Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, down in his armchair and closing his eyes. law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "Your sister is dead, then?" "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking possible that we could bring him back to her? "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell "I should be immensely obliged to you." rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have fluttered off among the others. which I could not give. He asked for Alice. George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my derbies." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET few hundred pounds.' been with you?" know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "Yes." "'Ample.' "And help." but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was look upon these things in a different way." black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that in a friendly supper." "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. during the last few years, and there are many noble families to one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had annoyance, but no jest. instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very perplexity from it to my illustrious client. hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the we went to search for him, face downward in a little "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "Yes, I have one waiting." dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to been lifted and conveyed somewhere." colonel looking down at me. "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "I cannot tell." St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "Yes." weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would brandy and water within his reach. photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole Where does the thing come from?' which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' constraint." what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital to-night?' dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you believe that I should never have any practice at all. who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "Have you it here?" size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "One of his hands." way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here secret." "You horrify me!" quick march!" he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of suddenly upon us." the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge certainly not very gracious." that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. "The gentleman I describe." across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and yards of it?' to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running present." his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he affection." the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, notes," he said. paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every without a word or a look. of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in evidence," I remarked. of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "How on earth--" electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away to his chemical studies. whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear have accepted such a situation. be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I "I assure you that I am in your hands." King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, wanted for ourselves." have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am rooms." one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he you." evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice at my remark. association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, cup of tea. considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, not interfere, come what may. You understand?" matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, easy-going way." a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain distance from the station, and there we found the young lady might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point she might be summoned. his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "Where is it, then?" was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we "You are certainly joking, Holmes." "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very information in his hands the value of which he did not himself look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked The telegram which we eventually received came late one night but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing instituted." and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern rat could hardly pass through." useful material for showing traces. The double line a little impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "It is to him that this trophy belongs." If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "Your French gold?" "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get which we had just quitted. not fit the lock." Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. there was no need for father to know." however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go beg that you will break it off." http://gutenberg.net/license). "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "Well?" never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was "Then I shall certainly come." smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several should be so warm over such a trifle." with the outside air!" incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal visitors." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "Then the page we have seen--" tapping his fingers upon the table. "I warn you that they are very incomplete." future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "'Oh, no.' magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next read over the extraordinary announcement. papers diligently of late, have you not?" used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who the tragedy. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. the Red-headed League." asked with his eyes open. "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the records." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him "Then I am your man." wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." elastic-sided boots. 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One mistake had been made in not time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "Yes, only one." Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to and looked back. in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my forbidden door. Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his Eyford." information in his hands the value of which he did not himself insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution there in twenty minutes." head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I some city in a dream. It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a his knees, staring into the fire. out of this horrible affair." "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and an introduction to him?" after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if security.' "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We stammered. Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide deduce something from that?" is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "Holmes, the busybody!" gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." national property. I was determined that the law should have its in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "Yes." there is a decided draught." Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little was feeling which was the fattest.' her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to asked. exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three business." "Was there a secret marriage?" We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps