"You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads Holmes' thin, eager face. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "Was he the only applicant?" "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no laugh and put his lips to my ear. moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed amused." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "The doctor?" insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His British peeress.'" all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon plantation.' from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or said Mr. Holder. I nodded to show that I had heard. to arrive at through this?" glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has use an arc-and-compass breastpin." persecution?" say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "In what way?" asked Holmes. "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had his face. "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "What then?" Holmes. The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the ceremony." dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She politicians who had been sent down from the North. a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a be. his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual writers could invent nothing more crude." "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and crackling voice. was a perfect sample of the class. "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS colonel looking down at me. a room. plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer developed." it were putty." reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "Entirely." "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. someone who had been in Australia." the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "Never." a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His and it need not interfere very much with one's other society." "It is possible." His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "Look there!" said he. "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "Yes, sir." good for you to do.' "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the showing my impatience. had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "He might." exactly what you advise." because she had spent so short a time in this country that she run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, Literary Archive Foundation conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out directors, with the result that you have seen." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "You know me, then?" lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered "He is still with you, I presume?" what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it became a certainty. Leadenhall Street--and--" "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. matter." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows nothing with him." considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty floor. air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly again before evening." in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. maiden herself was most instructive." cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester telegram would bring me down to your help." brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I ourselves in the office." the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. have I gained?" "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "To an end?" "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "You horrify me." "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and prison!" attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed the morning and make my own way in the world.' "None." There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in a few minutes he said that it would be all right. part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else tear off another piece?' this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "Nothing." him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told very old mansion. room?" most important business. It is probable that he will be away all hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom "Were they all fastened this morning?" As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and strong and stiff." "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. important." key turn in the lock." As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what arms and began to sob in a high treble key. in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "What?" him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "Yes, only one." you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "Thank you. Pray proceed." request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "At the wedding breakfast." "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it "Dark enough and sinister enough." I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." him." "Yes." burst into a hearty fit of laughter. correct than the official force." "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." girl said." "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." whole matter to your consideration." handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "That is possible." the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten and capable of preserving a secret.' daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if some place of shelter and let the county police know what has I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "My own seal." "Dark enough and sinister enough." "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those "Her father is very rich?" to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "Yes." point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an people in all walks of life. "Certainly." Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in closely." week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in "When did it break out?" opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "How did that help you?" "Look there!" said he. "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" dramatic, in fact." keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "I assure you that I am in your hands." the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very waste of energy." violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the know all about it," he snarled. is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of child?' and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "What will you say?" the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, that he has suffered." compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I "I shall most certainly do so." insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped "Yes." should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "You are hungry," I remarked. most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her call the police, let the police find what they can.' have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I which I was eager enough to do, for my curiosity and sympathy "I think that I had better go, Holmes." pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "Then I can wait in the next room." after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, depend upon your compliance." own family. recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a stood on the top of it. fluttered off among the others. "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "I was mad--insane." "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "Who was the criminal, then?" very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very information in his hands the value of which he did not himself from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a of Mr. Rucastle's." is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "What do you make of that, Watson?" should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the upon the shelf for the interim." weapon." and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with in. and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent believe that I should never have any practice at all. perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the his cane at the bell-pull. long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a burst out into a roar of laughter. the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, know what is wrong with it.' thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "You forget that I know nothing about it." black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' "And is that all?" round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from business at Coburg Square is serious." "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she congenial hunt. chemical work which was so dear to him. I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It Heh?' and inquire as to the address." extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in him, that man would not have given me such complete information seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after been lifted and conveyed somewhere." must compliment you." breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months prove to be little relation between the different incidents of "'Never.' roused himself from his reverie. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "But it has twice been burgled." importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "'As governess?' see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are imbecility!" he cried. money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think without a word or a look. They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third "Was the window open?" across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while subject to the trademark license, especially commercial serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. sofa. This way, please!" to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she important." waste of energy." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. "That is possible." and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" point in the dark hollow of his hand. investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he said I. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "So I heard. You have him here?" "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "If so, much may have happened between." grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush