drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own sneer upon his pale face. "Certainly." "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there "Two days later this same performance was gone through under initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "Yes, sir." discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his most interesting one." if I call to-morrow?" sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "The King of Scandinavia." There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of strange features which were associated with the two crimes which We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "Very much so." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "And leave your case unfinished?" "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa guilty one." bird I ate is country bred." morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the is acting for the best. "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman ago." tell him that I know him to be innocent." this remarkable episode. not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired outbreak?" ways of our fellow-men." matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my it were putty." "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." dead, shall be safe with us." examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish to a light-house. have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. miles off. "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt business." cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter society." appeared upon the scene." must compliment you." much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in ran thus: of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are experiences." delirious. made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it outside. "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' little trying to do so much typewriting?" direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "And did you observe any change in her then?" near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. so.' A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts ventilator." to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us I was concerned in it." both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. three of the beryls in it, was missing. which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face been." skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with secret." Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** me where it went to?" so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't she has been waylaid. There has been no result." things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of DISSOLVED. clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "It came here." than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was experiences." comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. you understand?" mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any burst into a hearty fit of laughter. hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "I am about to be married." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? Have you good authority for what you say?" he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "A confidential servant?" suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One I. above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to way: look upon these things in a different way." the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole you in your example." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have sooner or later she must fall a victim. crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. just ask you whether you had heard it.' them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could 1.F. was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. not within a twentieth part of the market price." lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now ventilator." and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for the armchair which I pushed forward for him. the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "This concluded the examination of the witness." house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" time." forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "Very. But will he see it?" 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "Then I shall certainly come." "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I and inquire as to the address." place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going country, and eventually married, without anyone having a Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray Gutenberg-tm License. the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "Were they all fastened this morning?" out." go back?" head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. quick march!" to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be before the coroner and the police-court." the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "Come in!" said he. that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet where she found matters as described by the last witness. yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "Then you may be so with me." the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, your sleep?' "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his could go. the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. becomes even more simple." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her His smile broadened. friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded were new raised from a basin. You want to know what became of those geese?" as this. Pray let me have the details." habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how Holmes." still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I helping a boy to put up the shutters. "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "It is possible." come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "Dr. Becher's." was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do fuss that is made over them." Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the IS in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be be. and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm there were so many in the whole country as were brought together quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned completed the cure. I shall take up as little of your valuable Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account during that time.' had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "Will you bet, then?" tassel actually lying upon the pillow. band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and hand, madam?" round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If posted to-day." "And you don't know his address?" "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method meant it for the best. morning." sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have learned something! Where are the gems?" her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my 'I should be able to look after that for you.' would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an unprecedented a position." iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "Why serious?" a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Why, what do you mean?" with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, the very morning of the wedding." unkempt, staring out at me. loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began of the one which your family is now devouring." quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "Yes, it was twisted." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always Holmes. Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "What! Had he lost his wife?" "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "I have solved it." distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. this unhappy family?" "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we beyond words. "Now, then, what's the last entry?" importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it useful material for showing traces. The double line a little "Never." down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." business?" in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "'I am sure that I do not know.' anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that questioning and rather startled gaze. dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to "What are they?" "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is business at Coburg Square is serious." "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a really the only notable feature about the thing." ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm chamber." the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, "What of the rat, then?" "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative is now desirous of getting those letters back." my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "What have you done?" asked Holmes. toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of the warnings." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "What steps will you take?" I asked. "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use there!' never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. quickly through a disagreeable task. thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my brandy and water within his reach. will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. not within a twentieth part of the market price." the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "You have but to name it." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in there was no need for father to know." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "Very murderous indeed." "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this fled together." whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "Frequently." professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "Has he come with you to-night?" pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to me. You must get home instantly and act." your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "Dr. Becher's." footfalls from the street. said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have then?" if she died from some sudden fright." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "In answer to an advertisement." the one as in the other." had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went official police." and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his bare slabs of marble. "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "Yes, there are nearly always some there." Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without breakfast and whispered something to her husband. work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a have established a very serious case against the son of the although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money along the entire front of the house, with three long windows discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my