to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "Never to return." but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle "What! Had he lost his wife?" "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the I approached. The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "Yes, sir." buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "My Mary? Impossible!" of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a breakfast?" Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." point our research must commence, and we will begin it by to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. roused himself from his reverie. directly by questioning you." your sleep?' until night should bring an explanation. "I shall most certainly do so." nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social friend's singular character. light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "I promise," said Holmes. in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is window when the police appeared." Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had matters immensely." him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though depend upon your compliance." "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "You'll never persuade me to believe that." public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "It certainly sounds feasible." exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most weapon." to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "No good news?" in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER him!" "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and "'I am sure if I had known--' serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. the south-west, I see." "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have behind me. "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "'Quite sure, dad.' you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. foresight and the moral retrogression?" the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a few hundred pounds.' "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, This is what he says: that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave is now desirous of getting those letters back." the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret directors have had misgivings upon the subject." think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora said he, "my real name is James Ryder." about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "The gentleman I describe." Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "Will you go?" the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the all?" out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw weighed down with some great anxiety. "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "Not social, then?" on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "Come in!" said Holmes. "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can knowledge of the world." "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "Stolen." Mary, has deserted me." wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read crime." test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless all-comprehensive glances. see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "'I have heard so.' once more on the important position which you have been fortunate the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by course, yours had to be sacrificed also. By a curious chance you "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "Come in!" said Holmes. surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for main points of my analysis." get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really fish-monger and a tide-waiter." slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "When did she vanish, then?" this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with a very grave face. passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "'Is purely nominal.' "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps to arrive at through this?" possible that we could bring him back to her? "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "It was." Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "In San Francisco, a year ago." panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "I promise," said Holmes. leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "I promise," said Holmes. was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "What will you do, then?" Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "I cannot say that I have." companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "Yes, that is the Crown." brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some Pope's Court. The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it "That is also quite modern," said the lady. impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we such attractions and accomplishments?' and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "What will you say?" Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." "Only as much as we can deduce." A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful might help us?" right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a the very letters. But what is this written above them?' impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway suggested at once that there must be a communication between the a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in do you make of it all?" "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so and put his glass in his pocket. and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon me what he had done with the three missing stones. 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot know what is wrong with it.' her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I "How do you know, then?" "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' during which he might have communicated with his friend the directly by questioning you." The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. "Why, it's a dummy," said he. traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed "What can it mean?" I gasped. "Not I." 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by My friend smiled. my room." The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather and it need not interfere very much with one's other "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to cause to be." accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the think that he is innocent?" to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "The rest you will leave in our hands." the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE right! Sit down and let us talk it over." you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "The best possible." Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "And you thought he was pulled back?" States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does someone who had been in Australia." his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that politicians who had been sent down from the North. first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for with the outside air!" heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "Yes, I have one waiting." course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he together. "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and your sleep?' has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client is entirely a question of barometric pressure." all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the enter Dr. Roylott's room." three fields round his house, and there he would take his against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend letters?" dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was purpose of examination. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one "By no means." it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up appeal." an introduction to him?" the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "No." ran thus: that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the Arthur Conan Doyle cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "Yes, but only for you and me." Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and "Never to return." "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. to have been novel and of interest." me have 200 pounds?' weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as who was a member of your goose club." "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." but preventing her from injuring another. ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" followed. other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a that he has suffered." serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he "In the cells." the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. do.' a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a place no limit on the sum I may draw." married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "You forget that I know nothing about it." "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked absolutely follow my advice in every respect." expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know six. Come in!" suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are main points of my analysis." owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the pity, because in other respects you would really have done very an introduction to him?" with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to knowledge of the world." hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "I am in hopes that she does." moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying that you can jump it.' excitement. furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really constraint." "'I am sure if I had known--' *** START: FULL LICENSE *** to miss it." before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished some city in a dream. evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with door?" Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, attention." thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "So I heard. You have him here?" upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent