that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the upon the shelf for the interim." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me troubles have been weighing upon his mind. the running down." The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood your bag." might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "Was the window open?" should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." sit on the left-hand side of the driver." The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project it means?" "What have you to say now?" therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "It is a murder, then?" lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. woven round him. never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" existence." and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was cigar and let me expound." furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is had this final quarrel? "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which "By train from Waterloo." little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said with some details as to your case." how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must ourselves in the office." "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under "I beg pardon." right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The there is a decided draught." wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "It is very kind of you." cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "Your French gold?" reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his lamp. seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I and a shock of very red hair. "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have ways of our fellow-men." and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong bed dies. Does not that strike you?" Gutenberg-tm License. quick march!" "Pray do so." or in danger--" were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her highly," said Holmes. quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch But Holmes shook his head gravely. and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "'I have heard so.' "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, purpose of examination. the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. "A confidential servant?" "'How far from the body?' some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ vague figure huddled up in the darkness. through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of such person." clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "What?" said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of "Pray do so." ashen face. am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "But you can know nothing of this?" individual and becomes the badge of a society." go--none." him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a guilty parties." and shall probably return to London by the evening train." our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." the general public were present, then?" The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon taking in every detail of the apartment. tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "And it is--" "Where, then, is my wife?" of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch breakfast." "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "Breckinridge is his name." which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "I will try. What is it?" salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "No." my former friend and companion. think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As humiliation." English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and as the one I chose?' behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than despair. It was not yet three when we found ourselves in our accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he him, that man would not have given me such complete information "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business "My stepfather's business papers." nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how to that open window." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes "Not him." "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the that I am arrested." place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to this as likely?" "No, my brougham is waiting." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." burst into a hearty fit of laughter. "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." was it brought him the coronet? another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no "I warn you that they are very incomplete." Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "Absolutely?" would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and "'In my own bureau.' accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work walking." line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do a suggestive one." delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "Then what has happened to him?" murdered man." stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "Deserted you?" the dangers which encompass me." should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled criminal. We have already had experience of such." clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. some mystery and the punishment of some crime." In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more note?" to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my to you." possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." tear off another piece?' "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "No, but the enclosure is." whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from charged with?" was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and way in." seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." Good-bye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "Precisely." out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called "It is possible." the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the October 9, 1890. "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever "The doctor?" going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when open." garden below. bachelor.' The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most better in every way that they should make their position a little Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you long narrative. the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "Yes." feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded "Why did you pick him?" from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "Precisely." broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "At half-wages, in fact." "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern nights." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for present." "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "Was the window open?" and I shall be with you presently." before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his I was concerned in it." my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or main points of my analysis." "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "In what way?" asked Holmes. events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "You are hungry," I remarked. Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "'And the work?' was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try problems help me to do so." tell him that I know him to be innocent." "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was was a lad." "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining power." Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and singular points about the case. What did the police think of the me have 200 pounds?' Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from new duties?' corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "To the police?" seven miles from Eyford Station.' silent! Oh, he will be silent!' nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one observed. hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's over part of the map. "What do you read?" our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "No, finished." you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen distinguish the words: the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I because she had spent so short a time in this country that she poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. outside." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and suddenly upon us." The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is south, for the country is more deserted there." like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is My friend smiled. Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. what do you think they found in the pockets?" "'And the work?' question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, companion. "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "By all means." window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her call you and give you the chance." "Very truly yours, afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found must compliment you." his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped like that before?" there." "Look there!" said he. the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in "And I say east," said my patient. yards of it?' "Your sister is dead, then?" to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." "I will try. What is it?" "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "Well?" and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great and capable of preserving a secret.' me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott most interesting one." of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "But what is it you wish?" possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my cause to be."