after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "Why? What do you mean?" "And did you observe any change in her then?" By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "My Mary? Impossible!" over here." smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether "That is it on the dressing-table." of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see Literary Archive Foundation reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father sufficient punishment." poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right with the outside air!" neither fascinating nor artistic." buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are "What shall I do?" to have been novel and of interest." shall use the carriage to-night." that you can jump it.' of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "Very. But will he see it?" be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in murdered man." James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would acted in my house last night?" can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "It was." decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "I was mad--insane." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the gone before you can get him to hospital." "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the important." was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET completely overtopped every other consideration that we both advice." "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. companion quietly. kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our chill to my heart. It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the was it brought him the coronet? swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no least a fellow-countryman. young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the three of the beryls in it, was missing. "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they whatever might befall. affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp that "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." to some other building. threw himself down with his face to the pillow. the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter copied or distributed: supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been is acting for the best. the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love and wait." "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, formed some opinion?" "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in to change my dress. my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, is acting for the best. Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with heavy and sharp instrument." "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you remarked. in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "I will get her to show me." minor matters until to-morrow." "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "Why did you pick him?" with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. just called myself is not exactly my own." but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have developed." "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "The Coroner: What do you mean? "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from done what I asked you, Jones?" "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a way in everything. vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? eavesdroppers?' joking. comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, outside." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps article?" and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" to-night?' "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single ADVENTURE II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "The decline of his fortunes, then?" day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the "Pray continue your narrative." clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "None." a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was was shining brightly. perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he held up the lantern and gazed about him. few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "The landlord of the Alpha." the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and pierced for earrings?" a little more before I quite committed myself. utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small The telegram which we eventually received came late one night Sholtos." envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of mystery." question. lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the place, I think that there is good ground to think that the Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. Cross for the Continent." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "There are none." "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, followed. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and the night.' "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "I beg pardon." "It goes to the housekeeper's room." Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "Yesterday." former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was "Yes. He waved his hands." believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "No, my brougham is waiting." waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "Witness: I must still refuse. Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of not personally threatened." article?" points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our cup of tea. I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong "Her father is very rich?" unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he locked. and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, lost nothing by them." and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if way: confronted him. Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "She walked into the breakfast-room." Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a few hundred pounds.' notes," he said. bill, which interests me deeply." seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, placed his cuttings. garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his papers." Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband be. the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the the address that was given us in the advertisement. "I am sure." "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "'I am sure that I do not know.' door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has about. left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for shadow pass over his face as I spoke. either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the power." black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "Yes." "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "'And what are they worth?' I asked. same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "'Quite sure, dad.' can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's anything to a woman, for she would have her way." "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "Will you go?" you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is that you can jump it.' indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. over with notes and figures. say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back indeed happy." The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "Of what?" did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do children over to America with him, so that I found myself without Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "'You cannot say what it was?' laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and fish-monger and a tide-waiter." Where does the thing come from?' her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect article?" I nodded to show that I had heard. its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On maid will bring up your coffee." deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his once more to my work. "Yes, they were peculiar boots." utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "Won't it ring?" with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "Witness: It was. "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. tied." his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. His name is Francis Prosper." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with do.' I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a into the bag, and made for the door. "But not more so than I to find you." copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of second window is the one that I jumped from." "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "How did you deduce the select?" been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police "The best possible." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the is worth.' however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. easy-going way." posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I Heh?' on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing