"I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and night.' said he. "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, silent! Oh, he will be silent!' on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see Holmes." One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said the ceiling. "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "What! Had he lost his wife?" quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting to tell." We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less "It's nothing of the kind." friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently carried out of court." Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and gentleman's clothes. "It is half-past ten now." fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "'Certainly,' I answered. do.' "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off I was concerned in it." "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "I don't say that. Perhaps." fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with "My own seal." her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case success. "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. "And help." developed." again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. his forehead." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much sit on the left-hand side of the driver." behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. telegram would bring me down to your help." his fortune, and I went back to pa. sound at heart." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be of a light. the inner apartment." delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send Mary, has deserted me." she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "But how?" brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring clang of the bell. often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done "Yes." "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "That is possible." "The rest you will leave in our hands." one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "Yes, from Horsham." revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I particular state visit http://pglaf.org perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, will take you up to see the machine.' Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" tell him that I know him to be innocent." shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at Farm upon the left." key turn in the lock." Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said Miss Holder?" girl said." you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty I shall continue with my miserable story. "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I thought that she would have been so carried away." "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "A greater distance to travel." him and tried to hold him back. the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "How did that help you?" speckled band?" visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "'Why that?' I asks. edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "None." "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the companion imperturbably. "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than how narrow had been my escape. He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in affair. confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "It is possible." "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since had picked up in the wood. "My own seal." we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "Could he throw no light?" present." "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a that pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to the address that was given us in the advertisement. "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "Yes, from Horsham." postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day as the one I chose?' the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the he. propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with as the one I chose?' the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly that he has suffered." o'clock is it?" "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you "Yes, all." result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms deduce something from that?" "And from a noble client?" typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "Yes." against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of point in the dark hollow of his hand. impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" "I cannot say that I have." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out you for a few hours?" began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' mysterious end." the night.' "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for "You have a clue?" even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and strange features which were associated with the two crimes which is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes Clair, of Lee." "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "Then what has happened to him?" "Never to return." was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to have accepted such a situation. problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "It is very kind of you." asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner the nursery. "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you you came in." safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened way in everything. wedding?" kind enough to tell me what I should do." crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from bearing upon the case." Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand "Where, indeed?" "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the the tragedy. where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "'Which dealer's?' took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her society." the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "Were they all fastened this morning?" abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "Can I be of assistance?" cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, better in every way that they should make their position a little His smile broadened. Henry Baker is a member." "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at you understand?" bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to tell me that you intended to go into harness." reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the hand, madam?" presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. cigar and let me expound." "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a examination of the premises, but without finding anything which you understand?" the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since of fine shops and stately business premises that they really slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "On your arm?" he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we "No, I am descending." on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates face and glided from the room. saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "Not him." face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, "I am about to be married." possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and quickly through a disagreeable task. established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found upon the white wrist. "That was it, sir." who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for locked. "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce astonishment. turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "Ample." hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him "So I am. Very much so." shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "No, I think that I'll take it." "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, His smile broadened. Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On to surprise her." in, he had on neither collar nor necktie. my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, the so-precious time, but come!' shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you should be so warm over such a trifle." "Why serious?" allusion to a rat. "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, Eyford at 11:15.' his cane at the bell-pull. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in prison!" Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled "None." "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "'Quite sure, dad.' examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I "What, then, did Peterson do?" a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I success. "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those help us in this matter." "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "'And what are they worth?' I asked. the ceiling. door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and here." questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive hurried by. "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a looking up at the numbers of the houses." Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man chill to my heart. little trying to do so much typewriting?" "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should the nursery. feature." either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "Of Friday, June 19th." ready to-morrow?' occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "Eh? What was that?" one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing occurred." up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and The King stared at him in amazement. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what placed his cuttings. soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich have one." pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a man. I know him from the photograph." comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. stalked out of the room. "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already go--none." "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third foresight and the moral retrogression?" "'And what are they worth?' I asked. ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. asked with his eyes open. "Then, as to money?" round with crates and massive boxes. upon the shelf for the interim." 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a have had none more fantastic than this." St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" "Was the window open?" of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then better in every way that they should make their position a little the coronet in his hand?" Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill the general public were present, then?" of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the suggested at once that there must be a communication between the results." extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was had this final quarrel? undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining disappearance of these gems?" done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "'Yes, sir.' acted in my house last night?" purpose of examination. that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and murdered man." went to the Alpha were town bred." central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of "'Most admirably.' is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you man. squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. showing my impatience. blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "On your arm?" for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "What steps will you take?" I asked. often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an