"That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "Yes, all." "Get out!" said he. round with crates and massive boxes. "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "Did he not advertise?" other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' writing, and yet I know it well." the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. followed. bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and of Mr. Rucastle's." Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his reach." heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could client, rising. you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this "'And what salary do you ask?' thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers that there was nothing in it, after all." the bed, and you in that chair." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into "'And the work?' interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down woven round him. and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing said he. sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the sneer upon his pale face. possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common it were putty." "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call charge against him will break down." "We must have a cab." knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "Stoke Moran?" said he. another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." coroner's jury." "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been that I am arrested." dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few since then to throw any light upon what became of him." and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. fire. You quite follow me?" "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the him, that man would not have given me such complete information weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally visitors." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but touch that coronet?' this man was intellectual?" imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "No. His orders were to stay in the house." and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such with her." outbreak?" he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it place no limit on the sum I may draw." Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom Holmes rather sternly. her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so call the police, let the police find what they can.' girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, the coronet in his hand?" "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before License. You must require such a user to return or qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my seem to you to be relevant or not." he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to "'There is a drive, then?' I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in simple cases which are so extremely difficult." manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by down in his armchair and closing his eyes. International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "Dark enough and sinister enough." but preventing her from injuring another. weighed down with some great anxiety. stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "No, my brougham is waiting." rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." points in connection with it which never have been, and probably I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to relief. When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the that matter." commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his skylight. "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight business in the City. She little knew what. observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this meanly of me." "I cannot say that I have." against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for of the one which your family is now devouring." which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." might have a private word with us. "Why serious?" sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the three of the beryls in it, was missing. value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "No, distinctly professional." union?" only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "Entirely." case-book, which he consulted. "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "Imitated." "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "Frequently." from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "But I have heard all that you have heard." the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the chamber." schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was Dr. Gregory B. Newby was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing you found me to-night--and running through the front room she have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, awaited us upon the table. Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, will not take me long to tell. memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." room. heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a the station." have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "And you don't know his address?" de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: through." them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "But it has twice been burgled." name is different." must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who that you saw all that I did." before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully any." "In San Francisco, a year ago." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in I nodded again. unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, "'And what are they worth?' I asked. elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "No." "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of I approached. estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress fluttered off among the others. "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural his face which made him a very different person to the round, "I shall be delighted." mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that ventilator." "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' see me here to avoid scandal." "The Cedars?" seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the row." brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He conduct the inquiry." endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, "How many? I don't know." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my putting in the horse. the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "Yes, they were peculiar boots." had died away into the silence from which it rose. them?" conduct the inquiry." go back?" own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he any little problem which you may submit to me." which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father breakfast and whispered something to her husband. to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in should be taken.' "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that recover the gem." see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "'You doubt its value?' he asked. VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "What! a murderous attack?" the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he so far?" "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be must compliment you." dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical round with crates and massive boxes. inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was "And you don't know his address?" that I am arrested." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair was shining brightly. to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the quite distinctive." the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "How can you tell that?" half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out "That is unusual in a young girl." certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "But how?" Count Von Kramm." Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was "I was sure that I might rely on you." stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could confronted him. Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very the loss of it. "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached his eyes and forehead. arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes your most interesting statement." lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of "What! a murderous attack?" about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "What! You do not mean bodies?" "When did she vanish, then?" "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "Yes, at the mines." disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had "Nothing." answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have was used.' are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked "No." balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little strode off upon his way. world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "My private note-paper." "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than whereabouts. fish-monger and a tide-waiter." in the dead of the night?' which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old spare." all that?" "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I what these perils are?" "ARAT," I read. "I should wish to." "I was afraid that you were engaged." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I husband's writing, madam." The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush and inquire as to the address." doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was to me. "Then that will simplify matters." 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Problems may be solved in the study at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my intrusion of other matters." "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all