firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her the south-west, I see." "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "Indeed! Whose, then?" planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished "Yes, sir." at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, observed. me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from a room. "He disappeared so suddenly." own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "But you can know nothing of this?" "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I London for the present?" this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" went to the Alpha were town bred." "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly his fortune, and I went back to pa. been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had "Did he not advertise?" his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss "So I heard. You have him here?" wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one "It is very kind of you." We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who during which he might have communicated with his friend the peculiar to him. them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking was lame." "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your "'Which dealer's?' have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as a monotonous occupation." James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more "Look there!" said he. there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this triumphant cloud from his cigarette. once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On assist you in forming an opinion." St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, there were one or two details which were new to me. But the quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain the so-precious time, but come!' ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in "Won't it ring?" band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "And how?" doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in "But she will refuse." digesting their breakfasts at home." going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took will find little credit to be gained out of this case." done what I asked you, Jones?" on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's behind me. works. See paragraph 1.E below. mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then was lame." "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "Then I do not see the point." mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "Well." morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "You know me, then?" strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "Then what has happened to him?" The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the details should find their way into the papers. Inspector really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "'What do you call purely nominal?' can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." Watson," he said cordially. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently coroner's jury." bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "None." which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my "There are none." have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the sit on the left-hand side of the driver." and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "Did you become engaged then?" envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's kind enough to tell me what I should do." take the flies, but not before." snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back and I shall be with you presently." "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "'Yes, sir.' "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "Was she in good spirits?" creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, chemical work which was so dear to him. this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a pictures, libraries, or plate. brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could notes," he said. "Well, but China?" like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. wedding?" wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a evidence," I remarked. "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit know that the truth is known." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any behind me. not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "'Yes, I promise.' "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." never came back." wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made the general public were present, then?" toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the south, for the country is more deserted there." "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before ourselves in the office." License. You must require such a user to return or and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there companion imperturbably. cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And is a common subject for conversation. spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. over here." "But what harm can there be in that?" The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "He is still with you, I presume?" that you can jump it.' The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An once more for Briony Lodge. speckled band?" certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to the King without delay." likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to noise which awoke you from your sleep?" maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a "BALLARAT." "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as some city in a dream. retorted upon me, and I on you." at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "The rest you will leave in our hands." bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "On your arm?" "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention fat-encircled eyes. "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my to that open window." "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "And your father? Did you tell him?" The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered desk. you." to have that photograph." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "I am armed." "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "But I am all in the dark." robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than business matters.' occupations.' you." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon confronted him. listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing voice. looking up at the numbers of the houses." My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "Why, what do you mean?" the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." locked." took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "No good news?" this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "A greater distance to travel." "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin to Leatherhead. charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of "You will not go there first?" it? Did I buy the geese off you?" Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding heavily into it. remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of in his hands." annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked business came to an end." written, and locked the door of the office after me. "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "The King of Scandinavia." outsides of the windows. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "Nothing?" other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange she has been waylaid. There has been no result." latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate future lives." to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but the general public were present, then?" "No." "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "When did she vanish, then?" The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have said he. away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been extraordinary contortions. of note-paper. It read in this fashion: "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual was shining brightly. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy had picked up in the wood. investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection status with the IRS. but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Then, as to money?" "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and front of the hall door has given its name to the place. opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "Was the window open?" what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "'Very good.' "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "No?" Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." from the brougham. against a man in the prime of life?" Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By call for protection in the marriage market, for the present had a long day." which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have everything which you would wish to know." you." "My dear Holmes!" stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was rose-bushes. foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether License. You must require such a user to return or however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at comes from the middle window." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" face and glided from the room. sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "'Ample.' "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter will he say when he returns?" beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several examine." that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To events, Mr. Windibank!" which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a conversation I have gathered that they have been married about A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella instituted." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. spare." interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, "I know where it is." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour wedding?" stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the cost them two and thirty pounds." "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel absorbing." liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "What?" understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so there were one or two details which were new to me. But the Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my behind me. have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the we went to search for him, face downward in a little could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should these bleak autumnal evenings." I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which is so. I know all about McCarthy."