over his head with a sweet womanly caress. significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance "It's nothing of the kind." whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither of." "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert salesman. "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know Holmes' thin, eager face. all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in woven round him. social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had "You were travelling in the States?" the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy how narrow had been my escape. The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, to change my dress. sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." I was concerned in it." nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing "No. His orders were to stay in the house." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the upon a handsome competence. "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we indeed happy." me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "Witness: It was. down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "Certainly." shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. http://www.gutenberg.net suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was been shamefully used." "Why? What do you mean?" yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I corner of the building. call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." himself to tell his story. suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "'I have already given you my word.' of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "'Is purely nominal.' had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was in darkness. another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been Munro.' actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? was lame." of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "That was it, sir." concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window "Get out!" said he. "It may not come to that," said Holmes. more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save correct than the official force." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose I leave." lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of directors have had misgivings upon the subject." wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to impression behind it as though a window had gently closed very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took was the fact that his father should, according to his account, with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "I came to find a friend." at once, for I have only half an hour." as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of you give your casting vote to?" his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps "What then?" brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a and have this put in the evening papers." and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come time." "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united official police." "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking the bottom.' "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "To an English lawyer named Norton." Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "How can you tell that?" "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. photograph a cabinet?" "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm kindly on the shoulder. up this clue while it is still hot." perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "Yes." scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "It must be recovered." age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able "You will not go there first?" "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." hurried away. He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very into her hand at the door and which lured her within their particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere furiously. crowd. the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "'Yes.' himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." some water from a caraffe. get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save points in connection with it which never have been, and probably struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "'Ample.' "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few out." present." devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that absorbing." "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy Heh?' light and attacked it." hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner "Perhaps we may make them less so." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the country, and eventually married, without anyone having a and the colonel ushered me in. was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was during which he might have communicated with his friend the lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "Precisely." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" him." "Nearly eleven." be there in time for your coming." believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "How did that help you?" here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, know what is wrong with it.' Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "The King of Scandinavia." me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "So I heard. You have him here?" though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord chill to my heart. "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly call it cruel." mysterious end." sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I wanted for ourselves." the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has "At the wedding breakfast." follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" experiences." business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. bled considerably." Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. the so-precious time, but come!' would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one Arthur Conan Doyle Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" off." we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a never came back." "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I "I warn you that they are very incomplete." on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "It is possible." "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; families. Now for the facts. indeed happy." mysterious business." to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were Edgeware Road. "You were travelling in the States?" "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from is," said he presently: "Were they all fastened this morning?" be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it there was no need for father to know." request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been notes," he said. sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest forbidden door. "But the mystery?" "What office?" really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men McCarthy's innocence. Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "And from a noble client?" do." engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, if only as a check to my own memory." "She showed me, as I told you she would." see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those dates and names. family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will singular points about the case. What did the police think of the used to be." "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had the room while you explain this matter?" what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel "ARAT," I read. have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" directly by questioning you." Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "Not particularly." and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who in a friendly supper." "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I wall." husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through impression behind it as though a window had gently closed know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" completely overtopped every other consideration that we both "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the the night.' endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "I cannot think." lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "A confidential servant?" deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, was shining brightly. "Yes, but only for you and me." had died away into the silence from which it rose. "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, already referred to. "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning easy-going way." to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but ill-usage at the hands of fortune. the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the said I. posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not "How on earth--" "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the was used.' the armchair which I pushed forward for him. revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE the Friday. Was it to be in church?" McCarthy." here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "That is possible." "'How far from the body?' "About a month then." facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all tell me that you intended to go into harness." "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of lamp. "What steps will you take?" I asked. already referred to. black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this them?" "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "Well." dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of "Entirely." held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him young Openshaw's." into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a business in the City. She little knew what. long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have ways including including checks, online payments and credit card brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "'You cannot say what it was?' laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them in this note: questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you