we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "I shall most certainly do so." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite "He said too much." And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am Foundation awaited us upon the table. conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. wall." with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I "Quite so." outbreak?" the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is papers diligently of late, have you not?" "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." way in." manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is "What shall I do?" a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "Yes, but only for you and me." suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience danger is over." own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very "Well, some hundreds of times." stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his "Witness: Nothing definite. heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad during which he might have communicated with his friend the go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" awkward doing business with an alias." rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "My Mary? Impossible!" wall." fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears your co-operation." locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he character. papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a hair?' I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, sooner or later she must fall a victim. "I will try. What is it?" discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you made his money." you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police DISSOLVED. continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "And how in the world did you find them?" get her out of the way." second window is the one that I jumped from." quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." if only as a check to my own memory." to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the to talk it over. "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As instincts rose up against that laugh. "Stoke Moran?" said he. "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "But the mystery?" its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "You are certainly joking, Holmes." the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a nice household for a young lady." destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I "Not I." Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to hurried by. your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far subject to the trademark license, especially commercial order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "It surprised me." gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them present." greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know along the entire front of the house, with three long windows little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly criminal. We have already had experience of such." have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all fluttered off among the others. Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. asked with his eyes open. and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length we went to search for him, face downward in a little upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from "I am sure." or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was enter Dr. Roylott's room." "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to "Then I do not see the point." LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had "They are typewritten," I remarked. of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I to miss it." deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" "To ruin me." His smile broadened. "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This ventilator." can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour help us in this matter." he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on standing smiling on the door-step. immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in "That is easily got." heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall papers diligently of late, have you not?" kind enough to tell me what I should do." inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. speckled band?" believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all "What of the rat, then?" doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' "And the cigar-holder?" is a common subject for conversation. "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an I leave." followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that "Certainly, madam." dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, own family. matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in best detective that ever lived. perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, despaired of." through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK to go into your room and bar your shutters?" been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a "But the mystery?" destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs highly," said Holmes. Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single it right.' two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at the Assizes." "'And the work?' high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about "You are certainly joking, Holmes." dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we had died away into the silence from which it rose. as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "In San Francisco, a year ago." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different mystery may be cleared along those lines." gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door the dangers which encompass me." followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent begin with, and I had not got mine yet." his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of me. "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. placed his cuttings. to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his know all about it," he snarled. was used.' "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be had this final quarrel? Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "'Stolen!' he cried. has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon she has been waylaid. There has been no result." he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about union?" have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal appeared upon the scene." Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With occurred." he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "'There is a drive, then?' you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle even of instruction." Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of dates and names. a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "How many? I don't know." burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "But how?" Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "It is possible." he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in that you saw all that I did." her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' on in his house." see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both over with notes and figures. gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could and shall probably return to London by the evening train." unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "I cannot imagine." indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no salesman. it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which minor matters until to-morrow." all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "'It is locked up,' I answered. I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very upon a handsome competence. cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with coat-tails." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, James Windibank. Voilà tout!" by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "You think so, too?" however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very charge against him will break down." lumber-room." schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent to me. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "The landlord of the Alpha." probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling indeed which he could not unravel. Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the there when the Rucastles went away." Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped have established a very serious case against the son of the thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up a room. We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to this poor creature." caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set there!' part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has my room." office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a himself to tell his story. "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he only touch the interest." mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an "No, I think that I'll take it." shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. my room." "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side head. So long, then!" latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent call the police, let the police find what they can.' "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was the south-west, I see." what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can his face which made him a very different person to the round, with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical "I see no marks." "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom than to us. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "Nothing?" effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that was not a bird to be seen there. "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "Look there!" said he. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "Not him." disappearance of these gems?" "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my straighten it?" seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the