article?" leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for meant it for the best. have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come he died? down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't Literary Archive Foundation "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear back alive. anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back chance at all." police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic shoulder. "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the forecastle of an emigrant ship. light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been she has been waylaid. There has been no result." now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes becomes even more simple." Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "Has he come with you to-night?" that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with anything to do with the matter?" those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, was lame." trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have woman who has had her own way to make in the world. labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. and that he would see to anything that turned up. fat-encircled eyes. without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it "The gentleman I describe." "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "It was a confession," I ejaculated. glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is might help us?" pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, do.' vague figure huddled up in the darkness. window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the respectable self." "You are hungry," I remarked. instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might following enigmatical notices: "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped "He said that you could solve anything." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." business at Coburg Square is serious." chance." keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. been." beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we prepare for the new role I have to play." seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three "No, distinctly professional." "And you can do nothing until then?" "But you were on a friendly footing?" as he remarks, very much against the son." and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled "Here?" Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "'Is purely nominal.' this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided to miss it." lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "No sign of it?" "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must "But who is he?" "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my bonnet, and went out." "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls garden below. unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case have got?" with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and to tackle the facts." "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, carried out of court." any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, "9th. McCauley cleared. "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business drove away. The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my nice household for a young lady." blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "And on what day did he meet his death?" clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I "Then I can wait in the next room." Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, society." down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he Holmes rather sternly. "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he upon the shelf for the interim." have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears new acquaintance to Baker Street. chance at all." client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman their singular warning or token before them when starting upon tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to some place of shelter and let the county police know what has and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined 1.E.9. "And sit in the dark?" maid will bring up your coffee." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that with you alone." sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the upon the white wrist. "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had Arthur Conan Doyle envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. "But to whom?" of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before must be when I saw the door open.' the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a maid will bring up your coffee." and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an Street. the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. have got?" the coronet in his hand?" We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "I cannot say that I have." and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, do." Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "At the wedding breakfast." bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "And how did you find out?" "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous trying to your nerves." India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a him to be an active member of the medical profession." to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and Lestrade of Scotland Yard." comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap is acting for the best. down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came upon an income of about 60 pounds." always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings Literary Archive Foundation while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. Countess of Morcar's?" case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the foot. for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for "Two days later this same performance was gone through under "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own "Yes, they were peculiar boots." American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account "Absolutely?" thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite your equipment. passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "And it is--" which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own it were putty." age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining not personally threatened." "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he McCarthy's innocence. you found me to-night--and running through the front room she through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in least a most suspicious remark." "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you a little more before I quite committed myself. the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "How often?" "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "But not more so than I to find you." there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I ourselves in the office." "I assure you that I am in your hands." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "What I expected to see." "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. you." play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my take the flies, but not before." myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "So it appears." "'Certainly not.' that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens visitors." in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears in the hope of finding them." turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." already been minutely examined." this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! maiden herself was most instructive." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already along the entire front of the house, with three long windows waste of energy." away into the river." look upon these things in a different way." "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "None." go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. a room. did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a will take you up to see the machine.' Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set "What I expected to see." it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "But how could you guess what the motive was?" entirely devoid of interest." is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and and the whole place is in a blaze." looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of know all about it," he snarled. call you and give you the chance." those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His the coroner come to?" case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring where she found matters as described by the last witness. would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." "Always." offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "The Cedars?" was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "'Where to?' dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who even of instruction." kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You "But we can't all be." The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at comes from the middle window." "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish "Yes." INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time murdered man." interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "To an English lawyer named Norton." boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." formed some opinion?" you in your example." "I cannot say that I have." The note was undated, and without either signature or address. "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, the iron safe, which he closed upon it. just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my was it brought him the coronet? "And why in hopes?" wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have "And you can do nothing until then?" extraordinary contortions. until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there six. Come in!" Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San himself to hunt down. "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to IS "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which the dangers which encompass me." frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a tail." "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly and laid it on the table.