in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to words came to my lips. his face. lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and humiliation." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." McCarthy's innocence. "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw if only as a check to my own memory." in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my cigars in the box." would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop "It came here." though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his "Yes." "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had swore that no one else had been in the front room during the counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen questioning and rather startled gaze. it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of http://www.gutenberg.net better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "You horrify me." "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them "Well?" mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, locked. did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "Will you go?" eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my sake, don't!" drove away. daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He excitement. floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT showing my impatience. Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis your bag." may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I country, and eventually married, without anyone having a building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." gone. upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was prison!" human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "A thing like a cleaver," said he. morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated which our visitor detailed to us. Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be ventilator." streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, "There is the writing." "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal directly by questioning you." "Yes." as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in me upon any point which I do not make clear." "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added "'A dozen yards or so.' front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden bill, which interests me deeply." where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for learned something! Where are the gems?" fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been Lee, in the county of Kent." chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something "'What then?' I asked. "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest "Perhaps we may make them less so." conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his to-night." indeed happy." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and sound at heart." on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger speckled band?" firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest is now desirous of getting those letters back." I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "And what did you learn from him?" took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key down in his armchair and closing his eyes. came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house the so-precious time, but come!' danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, four million human beings all jostling each other within the "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the memory. "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. gbnewby@pglaf.org "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." what these perils are?" "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place his face. "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "What do you make of that, Watson?" "Yes, that is the Crown." probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "The best possible." of note-paper. It read in this fashion: ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. whole matter to your consideration." since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back awaited us upon the table. think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "In what way?" asked Holmes. shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from "Have you her photograph?" very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough "I cannot imagine." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an purpose of examination. a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not forbidden door. she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which death." "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was "And you thought he was pulled back?" his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from bachelor.' wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "Yes." plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" "But what is it you wish?" fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "Game for a morning drive?" "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. conclusions. business." at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of unclasping of his long thin hands. room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears coroner's jury." that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer call the police, let the police find what they can.' sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would mystery." "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would woman." "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "And I to find an enemy." to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB "He said too much." through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I kind enough to tell me what I should do." strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear unprofitable." "'As governess?' parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "No, but the enclosure is." sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it instituted." responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the which it had come upon my father." "But how did you gain them?" "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "It was an hour's good drive." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "By no means." next day. "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and one of the states of the Union." pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he beg that you will break it off." electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "Yes, they were peculiar boots." Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss desk. from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in this remarkable episode. "It is possible." we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "And why in hopes?" he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double know what is wrong with it.' the matter?" he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really recall any case within my experience which looked at the first machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "Can I be of assistance?" his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do the morning and make my own way in the world.' confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "But you were on a friendly footing?" rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It should be taken.' little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "It may not come to that," said Holmes. be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I himself to tell his story. My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have my secret was safe in his possession. every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The Doctor, of the paper and the date." his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "I cannot tell." himself. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "What! a murderous attack?" to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely noting anything else of interest. scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "I warn you that they are very incomplete." There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. gone. prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it was lame." expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that feature." fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." for its centre. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "ARAT," I read. roused himself from his reverie. "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "Nothing." that you saw all that I did." politicians who had been sent down from the North. case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having completely overtopped every other consideration that we both breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "On Monday." the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an placed his cuttings. are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "Oh, the cause is excellent!" other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no question you as to those details which seem to me to be most "By train from Waterloo." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "He might." together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left delirious. business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria "I should like to see him very much." "I warn you that they are very incomplete." 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "Never." laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. to-night's adventure." to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' you came in." "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned His name is Francis Prosper." of your young ladies.' which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a stalked out of the room. what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left thirty. hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "The Cedars?" "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "Witness: I must still refuse. beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself "And I." on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the has little to do with my story." hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. presume?" rat could hardly pass through." "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "'Certainly,' I answered. weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst call it cruel." the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, visitors." written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "The landlord of the Alpha." the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded "Bought."