"It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never bearing upon the case." "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking salesman. "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "Yesterday." "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from trying to your nerves." my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of "'Where could I find him?' "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "Where did you address your letters, then?" all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is down. small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an considering the formidable letters which were received by himself year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really rat could hardly pass through." a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have conclusions. as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and corner of the building. something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until "Stoke Moran?" said he. "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered "But his left-handedness." destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens fait accompli?" conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who "Well, some hundreds of times." Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in Countess of Morcar's?" donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate the coronet in his hand?" my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but then?" Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my look upon these things in a different way." Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in what these perils are?" reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "What office?" days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It "Certainly, madam." cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple drove away. Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of asked. behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "'As governess?' light and attacked it." "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' as this. Pray let me have the details." He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the recall any case within my experience which looked at the first "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a over with notes and figures. had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew conceal it?" "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, ceremony." twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "But how did you gain them?" her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your Miss Holder?" "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "Nothing?" in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful shadow pass over his face as I spoke. "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations appeared upon the scene." "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" second." "Of Friday, June 19th." question," said Holmes, smiling. comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow weigh very heavily upon my conscience." events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "Pray do so." fat-encircled eyes. mystery!" something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to "No, thank goodness, she did not." struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "And why in hopes?" the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a suspect him." the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "It is very clear." in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "Stolen." least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had "But I have heard all that you have heard." dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the neither fascinating nor artistic." and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the meant it for the best. to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be paper in the air. "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." it." of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "You horrify me!" outside. society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "But I have heard all that you have heard." was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing be there in time for your coming." centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. ago." Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one the coroner come to?" then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a the best of training." you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a for and were ordered to this address. problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he ceremony." "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it with some details as to your case." sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "By no means." "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird bachelor.' glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" think you a quite exceptional woman." edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. kind enough to tell me what I should do." "But a cripple!" said I. "What could he have done single-handed villagers almost as much as their master. reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and the child." will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER'S THUMB present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no late." bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We occupations.' "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom events, Mr. Windibank!" married her." signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." father's young wife. hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of some water from a caraffe. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "Whose house is it?" Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "Will you go?" was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. do you make of it all?" 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a absorbing." most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one distinguish the words: entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "Then you may be so with me." You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler kindly on the shoulder. "'I have heard so.' side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. "Where is it, then?" away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall "Was your sister dressed?" given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow Pope's Court, Fleet Street." events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. strong reason behind." 'I should be able to look after that for you.' incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was gone before you can get him to hospital." It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." "By all means." to that open window." Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in and all of them with the keenest interest. During two years I have had three consultations and one small "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my call for protection in the marriage market, for the present his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had visitors." them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" pictures, libraries, or plate. "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from returned to France?" Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "Never." face and glided from the room. Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those within hail.' "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "I should be immensely obliged to you." "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. children over to America with him, so that I found myself without saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "What do you make of that, Watson?" 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. Heh?' Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from Edgeware Road. Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." have accepted such a situation. hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. to me. "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the indiscretion." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which I was concerned in it." "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom brandy and water within his reach. we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated Sutherland?" can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case train from Paddington which would bring you there at about "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from "And the cigar-holder?" I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second "My dear Holmes!" had this final quarrel? License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down details should find their way into the papers. Inspector stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would "And help." occupations.' should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "What shall I do?" the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "Won't it ring?" know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "So it appears." would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. awaited us upon the table. edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you."