to you." the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "I was certainly surprised to find you there." the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." entirely devoid of interest." "My last client of the sort was a king." "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: upon the sideboard." rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work "By train from Waterloo." Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no I shall continue with my miserable story. simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "You have compromised yourself seriously." the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and tear off another piece?' "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see been shamefully used." strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since back to my heart. "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass was already answered. on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "We must have a cab." in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his thirty. "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my "I think it very unlikely." 1.E.9. erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and matter over." c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger drawing your inferences." am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I crackling voice. a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable II. autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs "How about poison?" which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott conversation I have gathered that they have been married about to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into see a sister of mine apply for." clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "Really! You surprise me." feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment instincts rose up against that laugh. precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not during which he might have communicated with his friend the pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you have been better. It is all right." "Was she in good spirits?" "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in been deceived." "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "You don't mind breaking the law?" you." offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "What office?" again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was "'I shall certainly be there.' "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the once more. my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my Project Gutenberg-tm works. to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "And that is--" extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very has little to do with my story." Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my "It was." "He might." mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of useful material for showing traces. The double line a little "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for me. You must get home instantly and act." "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding not as remarkable as your advertisement." "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one less than 26s. 4d. I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "No good news?" he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see ill-usage at the hands of fortune. I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "But how will you look?" without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the Doctor, of the paper and the date." long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal highly," said Holmes. surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming shaken than I had ever seen him. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a lids now and glanced across at his visitor. derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small and wait." "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply "Did you become engaged then?" original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against IS the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and prison!" beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to States. Clair, of Lee." the bed, and you in that chair." that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, row." "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," distinguish the words: of them has the shutters up.' from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all could go. the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "My own seal." "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said pierced for earrings?" prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Yes." "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands my little problems." good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the It was close upon four before the door opened, and a Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was dates and names. of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the "Her father is very rich?" XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the that I can to serve you." "Well, some hundreds of times." from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he the room while you explain this matter?" PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" that I am arrested." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that been anything against him. He had for years been known as a mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry your Highness to the police-station?" tell him that I know him to be innocent." jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our again." the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. woman who has had her own way to make in the world. that I can to serve you." like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "What have you to say now?" the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. into the room. settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a Sutherland?" When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and one which it was hard to resist. "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "Why did you pick him?" end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the already been minutely examined." his wife has ceased to love him." her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "I am about to be married." His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that green of the new foliage. blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "Why did you pick him?" The events in question occurred in the early days of my air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to friend's singular character. Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and fire. You quite follow me?" two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. asked with his eyes open. slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was will take you up to see the machine.' on in his house." perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "But you can know nothing of this?" meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. washing it down with a long draught of water. "Really! You surprise me." bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "It was an hour's good drive." remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, Foundation "Of what day?" fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." "What steps will you take?" I asked. "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "So I have heard." which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a presented which may be striking and bizarre without being self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him this man was intellectual?" freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of certainly not very gracious." "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No hardly wander." "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature peculiar to him. to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not question," said Holmes, smiling. "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would fled together." abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just province." distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our all?" "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." events than those which have happened in my own family." Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these fish-monger and a tide-waiter." from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was entirely devoid of interest." to that open window." here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the lips." ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower to some other building. man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, http://gutenberg.net/license). handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each Eyford at 11:15.' saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's very morning of my second wedding." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, beyond words. "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. exactly what you advise." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine chemical work which was so dear to him. Dr. Gregory B. Newby said he. national property. I was determined that the law should have its be.' to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps detective. on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "'Where to?' "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or