having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "He slept on the premises." are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a future lives." dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless whereabouts. but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were way in everything. "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In very morning of my second wedding." quite distinctive." just called myself is not exactly my own." already referred to. What do you deduce from it?" time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the you do it in twenty minutes!' "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the death." the inquest, and which are worth considering." "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. prove to be little relation between the different incidents of annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an help us in this matter." "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, "We have tried and failed." unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He more terrible than the truth. the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was perplexity from it to my illustrious client. over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place hat since, then he has assuredly gone down in the world." unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "Will you go?" which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose all?" face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is too. The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do questioning and rather startled gaze. Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were Have you good authority for what you say?" with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "Holmes, the busybody!" each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter "She told me to ask you." 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the lumber-room." "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the of receipt of the work. and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled the coronet in his hands?" "I cannot imagine." shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock "'I shall certainly be there.' my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a was the fact that his father should, according to his account, Arthur Conan Doyle "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had written, and locked the door of the office after me. lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in and your relations to her." the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several be.' "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I one's self under obligations.' them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely both be extremely obliged.' him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in you." be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "My dear Holmes!" eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and it right.' "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped allusion to a rat. marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the you want, then?' Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "Then I do not see the point." "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "He slept on the premises." was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "No sign of it?" "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding you." light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind garden below. woman." "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "Come in!" said Holmes. a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this "Frequently." upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the was a loud and authoritative tap. and inquire as to the address." analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. may have an influence upon European history." have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend said I. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" a suggestive one." residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very his cane at the bell-pull. "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster of fine shops and stately business premises that they really his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting ceremony." Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it "Is he quiet?" your bag." on re-entering her father's house?" retorted upon me, and I on you." Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the husband's writing, madam." happened." "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "And on what day did he meet his death?" "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their felt the room to be a little close.' reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "Precisely." hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the dates and names. Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "How long did she speak to this Alice?" started for the Temple to see my husband. profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "An accident, I presume?" finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. you, my dear young lady?' "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and developed." "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that people don't know." He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have this as likely?" drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "Game for a morning drive?" tied." "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a useful material for showing traces. The double line a little consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "She told me to ask you." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking "My private note-paper." Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "No bad?" "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or Clair, of Lee." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" it right.' prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, them?" "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is of fine shops and stately business premises that they really Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "I came to find a friend." walking." "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am the bottom.' wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and into the room. take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he there." "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET strode off upon his way. "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the to surprise her." "'It is locked up,' I answered. afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter his fortune, and I went back to pa. stepfather?" "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to the station." Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "No, distinctly professional." have not had my rubber." happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "No." abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" "You will not go there first?" "And help." He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a recall any case within my experience which looked at the first leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly is entirely a question of barometric pressure." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want whether it answered to the description of any of their Clair, of Lee." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage directly by questioning you." "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "What!" he roared. side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the do.' was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, "'A dozen yards or so.' of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which your most interesting statement." "What have you done?" asked Holmes. formed some opinion?" might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of out." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "We must sit without light. He would see it through the every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come bedroom door." giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely in the dead of the night?' faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "What then?" "What then?" must be when I saw the door open.' from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in stepfather?" of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but sooner or later she must fall a victim. with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. the house with me." style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up a little more before I quite committed myself. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to depend upon my doing so.' I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in not come at once?" roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium Gutenberg-tm License. was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "Nothing?" monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and