http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ more solid." still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "Of what day?" Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose rooms." gentleman's clothes. bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "Really! You surprise me." dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have business at Coburg Square is serious." hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "You have but to name it." although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few "And how?" in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "It is no ordinary one." cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk knowledge of the world." morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "Will you bet, then?" his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "Yes, the wine-cellar." from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the "A thing like a cleaver," said he. him to be an active member of the medical profession." searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: http://www.gutenberg.net I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no read it out to me." "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "Yes, sir." three of the beryls in it, was missing. sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "Entirely." "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "Stolen, then." "And why?" against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "They are typewritten," I remarked. at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress singular points about the case. What did the police think of the photograph a cabinet?" we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" photograph a cabinet?" Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project this Miss Turner." Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "None." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite "How are you getting on?" with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the and have this put in the evening papers." hereditary King of Bohemia." of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my answered with a sidelong glance. hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I was keenly on my guard against him. in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "Thank you. And your address?" "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the woven round him. attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I villagers almost as much as their master. sentimental considerations in the background which would induce without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." Dr. Gregory B. Newby see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United read over the extraordinary announcement. be there in time for your coming." having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "'A dozen yards or so.' no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. cigars in their mouths. the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? gigantic client. came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes fishes. sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "What?" "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather some terrible trap for her." "And why?" the little opening for the ventilator is." "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his I held the little printed slip to the light. "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I of this gang." Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See made him keep the appointment." "Could he throw no light?" solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few thin legs towards the fire. Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "Only as much as we can deduce." across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." hardly wander." returning from some small jollification and was making his way frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "Quite so. She has her freedom." "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "Witness: Nothing definite. "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very soul! here is her carriage at the door." which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly tied." "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "Proceed, then." anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle system of imprisonment?" drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a I was concerned in it." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she copied or distributed: said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the looking up at the numbers of the houses." you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him any more." "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite goes." result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I kind enough to tell me what I should do." hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several 'please.'" "'There is a drive, then?' "He is still with you, I presume?" with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to John Swain, of St. Augustine. research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew "Oh, yes, easily." The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he golden eyeglasses. "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the developed." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the the bed, and you in that chair." without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A without success. At last the little money which I had saved began these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his "But it has twice been burgled." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite have got?" remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That woven round him. corner of the building. seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were and capable of preserving a secret.' stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very attention." You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was happened." public press." "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "You saw the ventilator, too?" distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "'What then?' I asked. next day. Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall Pope's Court, Fleet Street." used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you tightly behind him. The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I "This photograph!" specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a a few minutes he said that it would be all right. door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of cause to be." chill to my heart. called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man ashen face. brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for straightened it out again. "This photograph!" "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old pound a week." "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of "Come in!" said Holmes. "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was directors, with the result that you have seen." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than she to prove their authenticity?" official police." important." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "And I say east," said my patient. that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to article?" "By no means." they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon said he at last. "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my was a loud and authoritative tap. "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case in this note: "I should wish to." day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and matters immensely." of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no with you alone." the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "We must sit without light. He would see it through the very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': forebodings. "Witness: Nothing definite. jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to never came back." smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a in a friendly supper." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is the date of his supposed suicide." "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "I answered that I had not. the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. light and attacked it." I think that I could be of assistance to you." Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I Henry Baker is a member." engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps with frightened eyes at his accuser. attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he furiously. "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from frequently gained my first real insight into the character of black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon pity, because in other respects you would really have done very up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" points in connection with it which never have been, and probably an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land