"Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "Never to return." upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither my friend's incisive reasoning. front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared ready to-morrow?' him!" "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual this Miss Turner." question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "Yes, that is the Crown." the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "He slept on the premises." glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of about. though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I depend upon your compliance." appeared upon the scene." years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows The police have openly confessed that they can at present make status with the IRS. think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "I was sure that I might rely on you." heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without the iron safe, which he closed upon it. town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in quickly through a disagreeable task. his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, already referred to. the very letters. But what is this written above them?' "9th. McCauley cleared. standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "It is half-past ten now." from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "It is solved." might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "Oh, the cause is excellent!" my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he your equipment. slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles asked. figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by points in connection with it which never have been, and probably future lives." "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "That was it, sir." is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "Yes, he did." affection." open." take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "Get out!" said he. "Yes, that is the Crown." to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. records." way in everything. her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at nonsense.' settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, "Thank you. And your address?" a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to nothing of it?" "It is true that I have been generally successful." occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." nothing with him." "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to business came to an end." five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "And is that all?" "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a fatally injured? in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the jewels which you have stolen?' But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my drawing your inferences." "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "My own seal." floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin there was no need for father to know." accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between politicians who had been sent down from the North. I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "What are they?" corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "Was there a secret marriage?" of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "But she could not love him." which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable Holmes." child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the in his hands." of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "I should be immensely obliged to you." "Yes, they were peculiar boots." other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her fatally injured? and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said think that any burglar could have done. if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "Then I do not see the point." "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness there!' precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of the child." bears upon the case?" elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" Serpentine Avenue. "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "Do you receive much company?" he asked. Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with any." room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon Literary Archive Foundation of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich anything to do with the matter?" terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. wife's character?" "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "Dr. Becher's." office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "'I shall certainly be there.' room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope third from London." walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw "You have the photograph?" against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "I was sure that I might rely on you." "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "Married! When?" him and tried to hold him back. arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran directors have had misgivings upon the subject." soul! here is her carriage at the door." acted in my house last night?" "Yes, certainly." on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "You have but to name it." "But of what society?" house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry mystery!" Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled yards of it?' do.' "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and direction." of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of knowledge of the world." "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was "No, I am descending." The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that matter." daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the over part of the map. "What do you read?" "I know where it is." of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "I am to be neutral?" be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you derbies." quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have and the church but not where the lady lived." to talk it over. same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy forecastle of an emigrant ship. "What of the rat, then?" half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "Eh? What was that?" recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made maiden herself was most instructive." is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of her also." wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "Not him." he. predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the might help us?" it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "Can I be of assistance?" "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "Quite so. She has her freedom." photograph?" learned something! Where are the gems?" a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on developed." he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it Eyford at 11:15.' hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are *** START: FULL LICENSE *** Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the his forehead." whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the was shining brightly. keep the flames under. simple cases which are so extremely difficult." that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; gives a meaning to it." did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had of it with the greatest attention. own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of the Assizes." what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had voice. these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society you." "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "You have but to name it." first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so been shamefully used." "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "No." Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. me. "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "You are hungry," I remarked. material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread had this final quarrel? as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. "It goes to the housekeeper's room." She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think back into the street. sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see hereditary King of Bohemia." "It goes to the housekeeper's room." Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "No?" the coroner come to?" "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "Never." are, and they are waiting for us." the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one page at http://pglaf.org Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which the address that was given us in the advertisement. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "But it has twice been burgled." should be so warm over such a trifle." quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of Henry Baker is a member." case-book, which he consulted. coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert Pope's Court. form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in ceremony." think that any burglar could have done. writing, and yet I know it well." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against "It was a confession," I ejaculated. successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for generous with you in money matters.' The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "The Coroner: What do you mean? experiences." most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "Where is it, then?" mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, whereabouts. Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "I cannot tell." as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "Was your sister dressed?" this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that congratulate you again." "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of if I call to-morrow?" about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. have been better. It is all right." "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in know all about it," he snarled. enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and cup of tea. anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "Then I do not see the point." insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to is acting for the best. Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the