several quiet little villages up there." destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off go back?" dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must chill to my heart. disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "Has he come with you to-night?" remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this enter Dr. Roylott's room." "And what then?" "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that Again Holmes raved in the air. strong and stiff." whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, distance from the station, and there we found the young lady James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "I would pay ten." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, rooms." Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." "Then what has happened to him?" "And how in the world did you find them?" which we had just quitted. "No?" "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "I fear not." is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it "She showed me, as I told you she would." "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be I shall continue with my miserable story. "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in The telegram which we eventually received came late one night pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his characteristics, but those are the more obvious." matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, outsides of the windows. upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "By train from Waterloo." I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "But what is it you wish?" "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. not interfere, come what may. You understand?" (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." outside. province." It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over "I am about to be married." smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "No, but the enclosure is." and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "What are they?" "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "No bad?" continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the charged with?" "What, then?" searched, without anything being found which could incriminate cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "How did you deduce the select?" address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded noting anything else of interest. Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the and I shall be with you presently." useful material for showing traces. The double line a little "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the Cross for the Continent." however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp DISSOLVED. to arrive at through this?" "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, weary and pale-looking. when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot the bottom.' "My Mary? Impossible!" through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "'Most admirably.' the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this any." his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "'Never.' danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his "No good news?" ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as she used." authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. gone before you can get him to hospital." the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he asked. middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." nonsense.' "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in never will be, entirely cleared up. fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. are, I think, all that we need." wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "I cannot as yet see any connection." seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "'I am sure that I do not know.' Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "Not particularly." had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies amused." question," said Holmes, smiling. given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not your bag." "It is no ordinary one." Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a made his money." male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, weigh very heavily upon my conscience." open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment furiously. With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold taking in every detail of the apartment. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent may have an influence upon European history." "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and noise which awoke you from your sleep?" wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk "Witness: I must still refuse. and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm is entirely a question of barometric pressure." breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "What then?" in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "You saw the ventilator, too?" mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "How long did she speak to this Alice?" every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any "Your presence might be invaluable." you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "Yes." that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "I say it is." supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the of fine shops and stately business premises that they really sound at heart." the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival Cross for the Continent." "Yes, certainly." Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately Stoke Moran." stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would to tackle the facts." unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a rooms." one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "But you can know nothing of this?" the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is away in different directions, and I went off to make my own set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. until night should bring an explanation. has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger "The best possible." more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. has little to do with my story." with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project will find little credit to be gained out of this case." IS always that they were such commands as a lady might with humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "I am about to be married." assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' nights." fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause of it with the greatest attention. to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything "'Never.' your only hope of safety." "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "Why, what do you mean?" is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into posted to-day." flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad returning from some small jollification and was making his way few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their "But she could not love him." "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is It may be so in this case, also." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of so.' "So I heard. You have him here?" the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country in. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "But to whom?" where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "I cannot as yet see any connection." very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my them, and came down just as you departed. was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I present." and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." next day. "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "But he might be a bachelor." "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' "ARAT," I read. might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is me. son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "Yes." "What will you do, then?" Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "In San Francisco, a year ago." "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me for and were ordered to this address. It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, here and I will read it to you: "And the murderer?" Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. fishes. there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they light and attacked it." "Yes." It may be so in this case, also." Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the "And how have you succeeded?" insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. there!' shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand the running down." arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "And when will you call?" "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend the driver. Doctor, of the paper and the date." her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. tapping his fingers upon the table. sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in interested in these little problems, and since you are good "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "Where, then, is my wife?" from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "Will you go?" "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." him." upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all