"You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly breakfast?" you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "Never." time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained "I cannot imagine." "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and to change my dress. "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must gone before you can get him to hospital." farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and plantation.' "What!" he roared. at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then matter." hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "Won't it ring?" standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "Then I am your man." Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your opportunities to fix the problem. occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "No. What a strange idea!" "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. License. You must require such a user to return or cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "But your client--" "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "But I am all in the dark." "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I definite end. quickly through a disagreeable task. "Pray tell us what has happened to you." to-night." my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people believe that I should never have any practice at all. Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no papers on the sundial.'" the one as in the other." it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee and effective." could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "No." the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to "Get out!" said he. me, and I could not think that his explanation of the with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I crime. not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "What I expected to see." submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my vanished into the darkness. "The knees of his trousers." hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor Countess of Morcar's?" with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and there has been an enclosure here!" son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to quickly through a disagreeable task. "Come in!" said Holmes. The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as chemical work which was so dear to him. finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was over his head with a sweet womanly caress. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET walking." commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, charge against him will break down." willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards "'A dozen yards or so.' down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. way in." existence." morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who good for you to do.' "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "You were travelling in the States?" John Swain, of St. Augustine. the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. young Openshaw's." the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "Just look it up, then." "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a bears upon the case?" only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "Game for a morning drive?" "It must be recovered." "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you cigars in the box." first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider with you alone." murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I instincts rose up against that laugh. "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to once more to my work. "Yes, all." in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with as he remarks, very much against the son." practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but "One of the highest in England." "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "It is his hat." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "'Very good.' "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I redistribution. vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "What is it, then--a fire?" had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "You are hungry," I remarked. in a very precise fashion." get the tickets." adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all interested in these little problems, and since you are good attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "'I have already given you my word.' inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental weigh very heavily upon my conscience." uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual jewels which you have stolen?' Heh?' Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat is now desirous of getting those letters back." reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "Breckinridge is his name." will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. extraordinary contortions. directors, with the result that you have seen." little trying to do so much typewriting?" "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by house for five minutes.' "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he be there in time for your coming." on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "What, then, did Peterson do?" "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of suspect him." following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "This photograph!" much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "Won't it ring?" ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed brandy and water within his reach. As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those sake, don't!" "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the in him." grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, Again Holmes raved in the air. "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. meant." "'Never,' said I. round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "I am in hopes that she does." and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "I am all attention, madam." danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was "I have come for advice." would then never go into court at all." the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco desk. been." "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country had formerly been in part my own. o'clock is it?" "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "Nothing?" "It came here." higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "And for present expenses?" interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, but preventing her from injuring another. passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you get her out of the way." "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "Not in the least." "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, McCarthy's innocence. as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, ways of our fellow-men." "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were bled considerably." "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we is four-and-twenty." "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no to arrive at through this?" perplexity from it to my illustrious client. distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who returning from some small jollification and was making his way as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, shall use the carriage to-night." remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "Very murderous indeed." front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded formed some opinion?" down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather Sutherland?" sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "The gentleman I describe." "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one details should find their way into the papers. Inspector gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that was not a bird to be seen there. excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to know what is wrong with it.' your billet.' To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation upon the white wrist. stepfather?" wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "That sounds a little paradoxical." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to "Yes, there are nearly always some there." flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my and glanced through. fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of Henry Baker is a member." the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "Yes, he did." has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "You have the photograph?" which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "He is dead," cried several voices. "On the contrary, this is the right side." "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "Yes, the wine-cellar." furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "When did she vanish, then?" corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was trying to your nerves." hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the fled together." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "When did it break out?" individual and becomes the badge of a society." Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the "I am to be neutral?" guilty parties." which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between in him." the inner apartment." feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment drawing your inferences." See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the "It looks newer than the other things?" a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "It certainly sounds feasible." master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "Then what has happened to him?" at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "How did you trace it, then?" "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "Whose house is it?" Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "I am all attention, madam." "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his had formerly been in part my own. "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, own family. to tackle the facts." called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, Eyford." which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a whether it answered to the description of any of their "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial orange pips. a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that Have you good authority for what you say?" coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore Henry Baker is a member." her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of