"Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, cause to be." wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a if only as a check to my own memory." "The best possible." how narrow had been my escape. door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on like gravel from a pit.' his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "VIOLET HUNTER." a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "None." asked with his eyes open. "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" main points of my analysis." tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, had picked up in the wood. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "I will, Miss Turner." more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "Yes, I have one waiting." "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, my room." and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "And how did you find out?" we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as Sholtos." London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should and laid it on the table. cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too young Openshaw's." "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "Well, it is a possible supposition." British peeress.'" position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." you do it in twenty minutes!' "I have come for advice." clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of "But of what society?" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the seven miles from Eyford Station.' and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was the tragedy. instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely are windows in it, of course?" his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she was the fact that his father should, according to his account, the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day just called myself is not exactly my own." interest. They are important, you understand, without being to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "'What then?' I asked. "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and when you have done it." "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to she might be summoned. "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his situation." in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his despaired of." and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. tell them apart.' his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. himself to tell his story. card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." "'Not at all. I only doubt--' brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. that he will be back before evening." from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and This is what he says: said he. "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my "No?" for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that questioning and rather startled gaze. "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters frequently gained my first real insight into the character of of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just all that?" copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "Thank you. Pray proceed." "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the of the efforts of the United States government and of the better step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our for the market.' "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, conceal it?" "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "Yes." "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary evidence," I remarked. dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "And Irene Adler?" "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the whatever might befall. threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "Where, then, is my wife?" immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open yourselves in at night?" sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this you in yours." down. about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock to where he stood hid behind the curtain. trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "And who is her maid?" wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of with some details as to your case." focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "And it is--" "But the mystery?" something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room and wait." "Two days later this same performance was gone through under Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "'Yes, sir.' other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. yourselves in at night?" afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin some terrible trap for her." "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in results." strength of mind to control. "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the with her." colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me dates and names. he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to anything to a woman, for she would have her way." it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "She will not sell." as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "And what then?" the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "'And the work?' most important business. It is probable that he will be away all sufficient punishment." and your relations to her." the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in voice, changing her seat as requested. "'Entirely.' the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my use an arc-and-compass breastpin." greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. pity, because in other respects you would really have done very XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "He disappeared so suddenly." Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "I have solved it." "We were both in the photograph." the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "It looks newer than the other things?" "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten business at Coburg Square is serious." "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own furiously. his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the The summons was a brief and urgent one. zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was morning." better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "What have you to say now?" has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to to some other building. "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the read over the extraordinary announcement. into the room. fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. better in every way that they should make their position a little 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project infinite languor in his face. "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "But of what society?" covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any 'please.'" one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my But Holmes shook his head gravely. has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." was used.' - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "Game for a morning drive?" wife's character?" round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." touch that coronet?' them present such singular features as the strange train of as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand results." my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight child?' orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off have an American origin." vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "Then, how do you know?" Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had Holmes. adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm congenial hunt. "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we more terrible than the truth. he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out pierced for earrings?" matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a locked. was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat at a side door. quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he call for it in person on Monday morning.' answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "And now?" I asked. then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know you?' know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a a very grave face. house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "Your sister is dead, then?" I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "How did you trace it, then?" friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have is now desirous of getting those letters back." return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. affection." address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs overpowering excitement and concern. a very grave face. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have eavesdroppers?' The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent and all of them with the keenest interest. inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not "None." my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may acquaintance?" business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "It came here." "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts geese which you supplied to the Alpha." she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "You were travelling in the States?" way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, fire. You quite follow me?" or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "Is he quiet?" murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "'I shall certainly be there.' without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "And when will you call?" my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "I don't say that. Perhaps." contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that have had none more fantastic than this." "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I hurried by. and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into sparkled upon his finger. can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "You forget that I know nothing about it." remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "No, my brougham is waiting." prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a cigar and let me expound." "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "No. What a strange idea!" "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a himself. side. as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards are windows in it, of course?" believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand likely to be some crony of the landlady's." right! Sit down and let us talk it over." the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to "Why did you beat the pavement?" be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol?