promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, gone. a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are your own bird, so if you wish--" "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer Heh?' happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, goes." "What have you to say now?" no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" four million human beings all jostling each other within the slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves "What, then, did Peterson do?" police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." present." "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" at home. relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a his fortune, and I went back to pa. voice, changing her seat as requested. business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into past. "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, your co-operation." do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "My dear Holmes!" Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." you found me to-night--and running through the front room she may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had golden eyeglasses. directors have had misgivings upon the subject." "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our absorbing." "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in "9th. McCauley cleared. grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "But we can't all be." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "But his lameness?" "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, attention." the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "The best possible." "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. "Can I be of assistance?" "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's examine." have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "Yes." hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. more solid." "My private note-paper." weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: sneer upon his pale face. stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am fear." with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the of this gang." business came to an end." tassel actually lying upon the pillow. six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the "Your French gold?" name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which absolutely follow my advice in every respect." fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he highly," said Holmes. for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural late." during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door place of silver." smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, "My stepfather's business papers." "And what then?" remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the because she had spent so short a time in this country that she way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "'Yes.' 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid over here." "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the purpose of examination. to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** presented more singular features than that which was associated "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. have not had my rubber." "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "And the murderer?" LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he "To an end?" to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would matter over." overpowering excitement and concern. "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away "Perfectly so." horse could go." "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said "What will you do, then?" Holmes." ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of behind me. unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." visitors." Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. chance at all." handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large "I will try. What is it?" annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. spark where all is dark to me." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle over with notes and figures. the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a could not have written that. It is the German who is so showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "Because he was handy and would come cheap." With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest "Which are?" his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. "'About the same.' of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "Very much so." questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped have established a very serious case against the son of the "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted success. strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "Now, then, what's the last entry?" mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had read over the extraordinary announcement. of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer hereditary King of Bohemia." repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting appeal." comes from the middle window." "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is was feeling which was the fattest.' returned to France?" Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of hereditary King of Bohemia." the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's character. the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do three fields round his house, and there he would take his coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, the station." stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger hurried by. actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door respectable self." figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may other, as fresh and trim as possible. a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." she might be summoned. wanted for ourselves." apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "Perhaps we may make them less so." think that any burglar could have done. I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes chair. It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch the best of training." whole matter to your consideration." have an American origin." for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "Only as much as we can deduce." get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. was it brought him the coronet? "But how could you guess what the motive was?" 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to once more for Briony Lodge. "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms I leave." "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if second window is the one that I jumped from." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will directors, with the result that you have seen." well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. noise which awoke you from your sleep?" For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "None." shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew introspective fashion. matter." "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship as the one I chose?' and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, "You will not go there first?" conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just the roots. the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And next day. more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean was it brought him the coronet? showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through "Was the window open?" and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "Nothing." Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant ordinary clothes on?" good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "What do you make of that, Watson?" "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for had no one to advise her at such a crisis." about here speaks of his kindness to him." down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. you understand?" leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found companion quietly. "It is his hat." better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, yards of it?' her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting constraint." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "Perhaps we may make them less so." throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists Lee, in the county of Kent." We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of someone who had been in Australia." light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two papers must be those that are destroyed.' turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. said he, "my real name is James Ryder." On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. astonishment. are, I think, all that we need." homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, "And why?" gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs bonnet, and went out." nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect was a loud and authoritative tap. star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. details." story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was "Thank you. And your address?" adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the if she died from some sudden fright." from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I come either from the window or the door. My attention was furiously. large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two without success. At last the little money which I had saved began sparkled upon his finger. he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he guilty one." "I came to find a friend." the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end chamber." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "'I am sure that I do not know.' his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street.