the very letters. But what is this written above them?' business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "Yes, only one." power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were maid will bring up your coffee." chambers. bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the heavy and sharp instrument." Chief Executive and Director "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a 11:15.' Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "I have seen the police." "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there be there in time for your coming." trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it breakfast?" points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "'Quite sure, dad.' the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, seen the man in the road." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but to have that photograph." have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the he bowed and left the room without another word. drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, mysterious end." was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone here." long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I was lame." grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of here." of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in murdered man." at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "What have you done?" asked Holmes. between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, said he. her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, "'In my own bureau.' when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical manager. and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy him to be an active member of the medical profession." remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of constraint." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, him to be an active member of the medical profession." body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and in this note: you do it in twenty minutes!' "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: said he. giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I it means?" "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your "Where, then?" "I shall be delighted." square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, thin, with a long, sharp nose?" springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding papers must be those that are destroyed.' four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: woman." Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "Yes, I have one waiting." "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE locked. "But you can know nothing of this?" "She walked into the breakfast-room." "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "Why serious?" "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "She told me to ask you." which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. problems help me to do so." the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "BALLARAT." dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the desk. never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "Yes." successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which so far?" and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be away in different directions, and I went off to make my own "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for photograph?" His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of like that before?" "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man copied or distributed: "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this "Whose house is it?" business matters.' "Of Friday, June 19th." always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than to his chemical studies. rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers "What can it mean?" I gasped. very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, the tragedy. "I do." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "Not in a good cause." some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "Not social, then?" if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "'Yes, sir.' sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival amused." immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's would then never go into court at all." "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "'In my own bureau.' "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my as he remarks, very much against the son." I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "How long did she speak to this Alice?" "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two sake, don't!" It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." DISSOLVED. It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular to tell." "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle "'Yes, sir.' stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been "No?" before the coroner and the police-court." has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, at my remark. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "Quite so." life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. "Nearly eleven." January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "She will not sell." country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." helping a boy to put up the shutters. address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name to surprise her." know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made have been better. It is all right." was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. opportunities to fix the problem. Doctor, of the paper and the date." "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "'Tell me all about it,' said I. in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single detective. registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "That's no good." felt?" she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has Where does the thing come from?' of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am lids now and glanced across at his visitor. it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. companion quietly. "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms "He said that you could solve anything." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the "But how could you guess what the motive was?" records." "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." You can understand that this register and diary may implicate it with his own hands." suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for province." Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding whole matter to your consideration." "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his assist you in forming an opinion." tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely call for it in person on Monday morning.' "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have them present such singular features as the strange train of 11:15.' that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "Bought." Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, "One of the highest in England." the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite bed dies. Does not that strike you?" Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "Frequently." sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "She showed me, as I told you she would." been with you?" product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "I shall be delighted." "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but interest. They are important, you understand, without being "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul and put his glass in his pocket. widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her carried out of court." some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle empty. Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email neighbourhood. 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Then, again, I have heard it is no use your the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me strength in the others." flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, status with the IRS. and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in wall." fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "And did you observe any change in her then?" "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most second window is the one that I jumped from." certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of fattened it expressly for you.' pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and how narrow had been my escape. her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, tied." "My dear Holmes!" happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "'What then?' I asked. "How often?" he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. heavily into it. pictures, libraries, or plate. of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. confronted him. pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes,"