man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking the so-precious time, but come!' hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his completely overtopped every other consideration that we both stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much business in the City. She little knew what. an introduction to him?" "Yes." down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the "What! a murderous attack?" confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich This is what he says: "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this "To an end?" The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom instituted." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "That sounds a little paradoxical." possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "No, my brougham is waiting." you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with shoulder. come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel instituted." place, I think that there is good ground to think that the remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to papers on the sundial.'" is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "And for present expenses?" people in all walks of life. "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' pound a week." fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may are windows in it, of course?" wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a think you a quite exceptional woman." peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window Pope's Court, Fleet Street." similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us despaired of." I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would "Deserted you?" "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the colonel looking down at me. "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in chambers. "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely along the entire front of the house, with three long windows unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he if only as a check to my own memory." He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a nothing of it?" a room. made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was never came back." suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "I should wish to." "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you true." or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work extraordinary contortions. photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "He is dead," cried several voices. the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your Cross for the Continent." little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come all that?" back to my heart. "I have seen the police." her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "No, my brougham is waiting." a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't is four-and-twenty." so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King yards of it?' he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough over here." now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell the dangers which encompass me." those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing few hundred pounds.' music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her kindly on the shoulder. from you?" again, where I was soon asleep. sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "And Miss Sutherland?" "'You cannot say what it was?' window when the police appeared." room?" a little more before I quite committed myself. Literary Archive Foundation expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "'It is locked up,' I answered. even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, what I may call a really hard day's work." breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "Has he come with you to-night?" "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at me." note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the means taking possession of that which another person has a prior have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "On your arm?" both be extremely obliged.' anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no your only hope of safety." wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his "I should like to see him very much." Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson "He is still with you, I presume?" "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them gives a meaning to it." "I cannot tell." usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate "I came to find a friend." through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" instituted." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an a little more before I quite committed myself. threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I the side-table." second." "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" point in the dark hollow of his hand. the stable lane now." Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "Yes, sir." Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the main points of my analysis." sake, don't!" there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of during the last few years, and there are many noble families to him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set chill to my heart. had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she leaning back in his chair. two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. subject to the trademark license, especially commercial writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was was feeling which was the fattest.' "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite investigation." "Will you bet, then?" "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "And why in hopes?" served to weaken the effect. "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main man. I know him from the photograph." "I am to be neutral?" Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, And there is a little reward, I fancy. Have you your check-book? Gutenberg-tm License. with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out are, I think, all that we need." France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "None. Neville wrote those words." "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her carriage. It was a chestnut." distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the that I am arrested." the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "Your sister is dead, then?" which was all perfectly true. "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "You forget that I know nothing about it." you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a "A call for help, you thought?" sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are visitors." "'Ample.' "The murder was done with it." Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money chair. system of imprisonment?" "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "'Oh, no.' typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business Holmes." should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." fishes. "Two days later this same performance was gone through under know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "10th. John Swain cleared. dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the Surrey." self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is status with the IRS. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. you?' American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "Who by?" little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself and your relations to her." it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." criminal. We have already had experience of such." aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you breakfast and whispered something to her husband. been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you me where it went to?" My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to "Oh, the cause is excellent!" typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, maid will bring up your coffee." three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is "One of the highest in England." of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a over part of the map. "What do you read?" "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "And your mother is alive?" husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I that he will be back before evening." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. unclasping of his long thin hands. believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the singular points about the case. What did the police think of the leave you to your papers for a little." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible "I am to be neutral?" written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the "Perhaps I have." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" of the way of danger. while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just "'Yes, sir.' and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything in the hope of finding them." admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. photograph?" any little problem which you may submit to me." again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a examination of the premises, but without finding anything which brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the go back?" protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the before, for it was considerably after midnight. sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary shall use the carriage to-night." gentleman's clothes. get her out of the way." entirely lost his self-respect." A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own bears upon the case?" to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." that, and I came down." these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. "And is that all?" "Pray let us have it, for all that." green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off done what I asked you, Jones?" continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that Pope's Court. been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" residence of the great financier. papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds business?" not fit the lock." down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, woman." What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country there was no need for father to know." "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in head. So long, then!" "But what harm can there be in that?" there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "Perhaps we may make them less so." quickly through a disagreeable task. Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At client, rising. coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the matter over." "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very which should have the effect of calling the attention of the hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send notes," he said. presented more singular features than that which was associated "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something closely." searched, without anything being found which could incriminate thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project back alive. would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than the bed, and you in that chair." "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have foresight and the moral retrogression?" the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of row." "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the upon the sideboard." The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment.