from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "What can you not understand?" she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a "And how have you succeeded?" call it cruel." wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features "Yes, all." drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "And that is--" although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is humiliation." "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that back to my heart. first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very lids now and glanced across at his visitor. Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," said Mr. Holder. fatally injured? hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the and glanced through. Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding was shining brightly. "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. recall any case within my experience which looked at the first bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than events, Mr. Windibank!" papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "I never have." Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" outside." "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted train. There would be one to Reading in less than an hour. The considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up been anything against him. He had for years been known as a "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black you want, then?' attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then "How did he come?" anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" residence of the great financier. "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to the driver. last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He The telegram which we eventually received came late one night answered with a sidelong glance. house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, "It is possible." "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon "Yes." twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. as this. Pray let me have the details." to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up individual and becomes the badge of a society." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "That is also quite modern," said the lady. first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." again before evening." "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary has little to do with my story." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who "Seven!" I answered. "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with man. "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that said he. A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back 1.F. tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the power." lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "Ah!" had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I was already answered. "To an end?" didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. posted to-day." correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, Holmes' room. "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" matter." up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "And how did you verify them?" that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's in one or two places in England?' "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." golden eyeglasses. LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three present strange and interesting features that it is no easy present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The works. living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and likely to be some crony of the landlady's." I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had right! Sit down and let us talk it over." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the there were one or two details which were new to me. But the "How do you know, then?" this poor creature." "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards opening for you. Good-day to you, Miss Hunter.' She struck a gong envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and "Then how many are there?" that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "I guessed as much." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" memory. This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this "'Certainly not.' my room." bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward remarked. at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and bears upon the case?" garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the remarked. the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "What have you done?" asked Holmes. been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would guilty one." Clair, of Lee." the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a forecastle of an emigrant ship. "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "Nothing?" recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into be.' of the efforts of the United States government and of the better Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' on re-entering her father's house?" charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our strength in the others." coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered Henry Baker is a member." always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has few hundred pounds.' so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and hard-headed British jury." "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' fishes. "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of "There is the writing." "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the envelope. returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was from the brougham. offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "You know me, then?" down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly seven miles from Eyford Station.' be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the furiously. asked. clang of the bell. "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been means taking possession of that which another person has a prior the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the the loss of it. is a common subject for conversation. may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I "It is true that I have been generally successful." slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action McCarthy." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "Yes, it was twisted." such person." his knees, staring into the fire. "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. late." fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "I am sure." tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You and the whole place is in a blaze." which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as Lestrade of Scotland Yard." I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would to where he stood hid behind the curtain. been anything against him. He had for years been known as a every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few village inn over there?" first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say any little problem which you may submit to me." delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in passage and a tap at the door. infinite languor in his face. named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though envelope. All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really not fit the lock." retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful License. You must require such a user to return or only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as approach us with offers to donate. I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" fled together." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was "We have tried and failed." in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked the stones. "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow criminal. We have already had experience of such." at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the beg that you will break it off." Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "Perhaps we may make them less so." "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present friend's singular character. "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, true." it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "And how did you verify them?" Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That acted in my house last night?" upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a hurried away. "Yes, sir." fatally injured? "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or him." the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it a few minutes he said that it would be all right. About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "Dr. Becher's." in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now quite distinctive." "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "You were travelling in the States?" For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which dead, shall be safe with us." you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left them, and came down just as you departed. may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the so.' daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which time." standing smiling on the door-step. the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "'And what are they worth?' I asked. obstinate." villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up 1.E.9. Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the "Not yet." "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, towards the blaze. "Just look it up, then." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a said he at last. white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "9th. McCauley cleared. Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will geese which you supplied to the Alpha." "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, "And leave your case unfinished?" accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from to have been novel and of interest." "A greater distance to travel." the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "This concluded the examination of the witness." present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and Leadenhall Street--and--" closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' started for the Temple to see my husband. one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe.