but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "That you are never beaten." "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "Oh, the cause is excellent!" reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I be sorry for having acted so harshly." "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the dramatic, in fact." would apply.' question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "And on what day did he meet his death?" take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." generous with you in money matters.' "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I mysterious end." bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There late." A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that once more to my work. "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the has little to do with my story." controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "Won't it ring?" and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and heavy and sharp instrument." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "Certainly." "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, instincts rose up against that laugh. which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open in his power. bears upon the case?" glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "And is that all?" Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman Holmes." at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "I will try. What is it?" one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and "But how did you gain them?" answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you get the tickets." registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to and all of them with the keenest interest. really the only notable feature about the thing." as he folded up the epistle. "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he touch that coronet?' Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "You think so, too?" The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "And leave your case unfinished?" insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread "He said too much." despair." photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses few hundred pounds.' "One of his hands." Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil it." "And how?" a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the You want to know what became of those geese?" yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger "Not social, then?" old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the which I could not give. He asked for Alice. he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "'Yes, I promise.' "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently a few minutes he said that it would be all right. and a shock of very red hair. London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even nonsense.' months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of companion. the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would in darkness. One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, province." action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a country, and eventually married, without anyone having a kind enough to tell me what I should do." "Yes, the wine-cellar." compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder the roots. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "The decline of his fortunes, then?" "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, depend upon your compliance." Holmes rather sternly. carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that 'I should be able to look after that for you.' no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his points in connection with it which never have been, and probably vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in the nursery. "I fear not." previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem and effective." come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, "I see many objections to any such theory." 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "Dr. Becher's." over with notes and figures. "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "Well?" held up the lantern and gazed about him. unclasping of his long thin hands. "'Ample.' events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, about. the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have other lovers by making love himself." were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old present." Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a sparkled upon his finger. absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "Married! When?" quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper carried out of court." he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to had a long day." hair?' spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, colour had been driven from his face. envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, she to prove their authenticity?" time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something have I gained?" "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little events than those which have happened in my own family." "You are all wrong." upon an income of about 60 pounds." steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which "No, distinctly professional." "You did not overhear what they said?" The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have the matter." "The vanishing of the lady." and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is said he. true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His that threaten you." shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and be. bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the swore that no one else had been in the front room during the "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "The landlord of the Alpha." acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we the Red-headed League." "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were how narrow had been my escape. "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "ARAT," I read. place, I think that there is good ground to think that the Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I it? Did I buy the geese off you?" look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "'Quite sure, dad.' corner of the building. suddenly upon us." freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "Have you her photograph?" side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and his face which made him a very different person to the round, appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an "What! a murderous attack?" opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. the general public were present, then?" the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue joking. other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the lost his Christmas dinner." done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, think, you have already met." young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched despair." at my remark. had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a fire. You quite follow me?" came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He of campaign. was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling system of imprisonment?" and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' and the church but not where the lady lived." Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked during which he might have communicated with his friend the was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he careless servant girl?" and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the The police have openly confessed that they can at present make prepare for the new role I have to play." I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our writers could invent nothing more crude." fact, we may call it conclusive." and the whole place is in a blaze." "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "Yes, there are nearly always some there." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "On Monday." danger is over." which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small imbecility!" he cried. congratulate you again." an introduction to him?" there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by newspaper selections." "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for breakfast and whispered something to her husband. you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "Could he throw no light?" eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any leave you to your papers for a little." hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of you do it in twenty minutes!' the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not "Nothing." Munro.' and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, feature." that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "It is solved." "When did it break out?" near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" them?" put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass "Not social, then?" wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two this poor creature." and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that it with his own hands." correct than the official force." You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. several quiet little villages up there." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." dead, shall be safe with us." "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "You will not go there first?" all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of figure." still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" bed dies. Does not that strike you?" terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my looking up at the numbers of the houses." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm secret." "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." page at http://pglaf.org Sutherland. very morning of my second wedding." he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely Pope's Court. protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "But I have heard all that you have heard." about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy "Not in the least." where she found matters as described by the last witness. turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "I cannot say that I have." "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with it." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been shaken than I had ever seen him. "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a "And what then?" "The rest you will leave in our hands." edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's there were one or two details which were new to me. But the all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank "Do you go out much in society?"