'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. annoyance, but no jest. of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I the coronet at all injured?" "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent in one or two places in England?' matter." "I am armed." "And what then?" over here." of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each "No bad?" These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "No bad?" with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "She told me to ask you." My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in opened the door, and slipped through. railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "Do you receive much company?" he asked. immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to introspective fashion. go from here to the Strand." been deceived." "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "Well." seem to you to be relevant or not." It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, three fields round his house, and there he would take his learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been coroner's jury." collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets murdered man." self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which useful material for showing traces. The double line a little "It was an hour's good drive." opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "In the cells." I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "But not more so than I to find you." was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can other means.' day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. there." straighten it?" since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his bell. Holmes whistled. while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which must be when I saw the door open.' however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his my secret was safe in his possession. resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his chair. his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham hardly wander." "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you presume?" "Can I be of assistance?" I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "Nothing?" your sleep?' beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. shag which I had seen upon the previous night. for its centre. "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "I think it very unlikely." "I have seen the police." "Yes, he did." into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the Arthur Conan Doyle dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "In answer to an advertisement." re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his is acting for the best. clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her fled together." highly," said Holmes. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." ill-usage at the hands of fortune. little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "Then the page we have seen--" We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress Stoke Moran." some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," the Friday. Was it to be in church?" McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have in him." learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story vault. it? Did I buy the geese off you?" leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband an introduction to him?" half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "'Certainly,' I answered. been lifted and conveyed somewhere." We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "Very truly yours, league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the clanging. events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear and it need not interfere very much with one's other "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his unprofitable." Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman again, where I was soon asleep. "Upon what point?" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "I am sure." that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "You have it, sir, just as it happened." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I if I call to-morrow?" seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and triumphant cloud from his cigarette. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present soul! here is her carriage at the door." credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of in a very precise fashion." with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "Witness: I must still refuse. vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the meant." self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "Then I shall certainly come." "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour upon the white wrist. could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot villagers almost as much as their master. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if his knees, staring into the fire. by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he use an arc-and-compass breastpin." affair. Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. Foundation knowledge of the world." that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself over with notes and figures. eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with been shamefully used." on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "Witness: Nothing definite. will be renamed. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "Do you know him?" He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To habit of advancing money.' "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I "You horrify me." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can coat-tails." steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "9th. McCauley cleared. the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular "But I am all in the dark." reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself daring than any effort of the imagination." there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and second window is the one that I jumped from." crackling voice. carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the promised to bring home. see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "That was it, sir." "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible direction." police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger suddenly upon us." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." bore every mark of being an average commonplace British "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while "Yes, it was twisted." "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, asked. of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards mystery may be cleared along those lines." "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name one of them." wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of just called myself is not exactly my own." I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." thought that she would have been so carried away." objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method the very letters. But what is this written above them?' and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "Nearly eleven." as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "Pray do so." details should find their way into the papers. Inspector he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the other, as fresh and trim as possible. and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH Sutherland. and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been to tackle the facts." bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, had a long day." as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, followed. round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight upon the shelf for the interim." "I have seen the police." man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "'There is a drive, then?' dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that there!' wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best "I cannot imagine." and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "The rest you will leave in our hands." having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." see me here to avoid scandal." "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" less than 26s. 4d. should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up legal crime." "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, answered with a sidelong glance. over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I back alive. that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress good for you to do.' the one as in the other." over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with see a sister of mine apply for." "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that was it brought him the coronet? above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our papers must be those that are destroyed.' horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. to surprise her." my secret was safe in his possession. will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to this man was intellectual?" his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great there when the Rucastles went away." mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was hopeless attempt at recovering them." Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a prisoner's face. your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with congratulate you again." there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my as he folded up the epistle. suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to never will be, entirely cleared up. "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a never will be, entirely cleared up. why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well the coronet in his hand?" Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when