while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be questioning and rather startled gaze. slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." "Not social, then?" garden below. web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent past. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "Married! When?" "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "Nothing." and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The to his chemical studies. pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged your equipment. trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "Yes." "Tired-looking or fresh?" "An accident, I presume?" like gravel from a pit.' the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary may never be exposed to such a temptation." "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." crackling voice. "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "Have you her photograph?" call you and give you the chance." a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend Holmes' thin, eager face. state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal should be taken.' had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded noise which awoke you from your sleep?" Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "I should wish to." not personally threatened." *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." disappearance of the bride.'" light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of maid will bring up your coffee." the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the burst out into a roar of laughter. Chief Executive and Director Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this that you can jump it.' "'What would be the hours?' I asked. the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I Sholtos." "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a closely." familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police he. article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her weigh very heavily upon my conscience." roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover Have you good authority for what you say?" my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "Dr. Becher's." the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but fled together." three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "Yes, I have one waiting." the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big "What of the rat, then?" heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could flock.' found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting John Swain, of St. Augustine. "I never have." disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "Precisely." hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "If I can be of use." them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "The King of Scandinavia." from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his weapon." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last fasten all the windows?" stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend "Well, it is a possible supposition." "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in exactly what you advise." the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, was not a bird to be seen there. as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small "What have you to say now?" as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive morning." during the last few years, and there are many noble families to here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "Thank you. And your address?" "There are none." know all about it," he snarled. perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must for the market.' delighted to hear it," he said. conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project amused." at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms "I am to be neutral?" Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with public press." given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "Certainly." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "You did not overhear what they said?" endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "I should wish to." yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an "Proceed, then." which it had come upon my father." remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and The events in question occurred in the early days of my "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "Awake, Watson?" he asked. reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the anything to do with the matter?" cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst the matter?" Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity noting anything else of interest. words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of Leadenhall Street--and--" When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, own family. him to go away.' "Then what has happened to him?" must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never in him." "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. not within a twentieth part of the market price." me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no possible that we could bring him back to her? sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE she slowly sank and died without having recovered her October 9, 1890. extraordinary contortions. completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "Was she in good spirits?" secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for three of the beryls in it, was missing. society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a 1.E.9. the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the the running down." plantation.' "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. hurried by. "Thank you. Pray proceed." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "Have you it here?" of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in guilty parties." cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to the devil!" in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "You have a clue?" "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "Seven!" I answered. may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be was the fact that his father should, according to his account, yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire indiscretion." "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, light and attacked it." "The doctor?" "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin absolutely follow my advice in every respect." It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "None." weigh very heavily upon my conscience." carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, absorbing." future lives." We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his "'Stolen!' he cried. address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "And what did you see?" I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at in a friendly supper." without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to I approached. a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and "I think that it is very probable." something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an think that he is innocent?" conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a jewels which you have stolen?' have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a away to you." over his head with a sweet womanly caress. carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' and laid it on the table. "Texas, I think." "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "I do." thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the quick march!" some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be pressing in one house as in another. "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "And leave your case unfinished?" made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. "I don't believe it." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters and effective." "And Irene Adler?" "A confidential servant?" "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got standing smiling on the door-step. honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be you." than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to sake, don't!" since then to throw any light upon what became of him." dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that done what I asked you, Jones?" beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." even of instruction." result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a best detective that ever lived. "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "Not in the least." his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "How are you getting on?" the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Really! You surprise me." "Not I." tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves "Come in!" said he. man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely Pope's Court. "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he rose-bushes. course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it do." bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so for its centre. things are very often connected not with the larger but with the are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" to me. safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "What I expected to see." "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa exactly what you advise." nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the gentleman's clothes. her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. constraint." that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be in your London, you will know that the office of the company is was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "But it has twice been burgled." from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project detective. of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & enough to aid us in our search." either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been at my own good fortune. bearing upon the case." outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" the so-precious time, but come!' Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put sneer upon his pale face. frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of room had already been engaged for us. he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There said he at last. "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the all that?"