from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a enter into my head. editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project Holmes' room. had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was http://gutenberg.net/license). "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in kind enough to tell me what I should do." drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at of the one which your family is now devouring." presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "Certainly." "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "What can you not understand?" "Pray do so." "On the contrary, this is the right side." he died? father's place of business?" would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I distance from the station, and there we found the young lady "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much hurried by. mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, your own bird, so if you wish--" be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As in this note: little trying to do so much typewriting?" towards the blaze. at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "I am about to be married." the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite could go. return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall of a light. its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into chance." bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." place, I think that there is good ground to think that the "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" there." afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was this remarkable episode. down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and Holmes." father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "I have come for advice." mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. to miss it." have been better. It is all right." and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the the date of his supposed suicide." "Of what day?" him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, face and glided from the room. "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." wanted for ourselves." slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had From what you have told me I think that it is possible that equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel you." Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her drove away. knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. "On your arm?" bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms back alive. feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in your room." Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled Leave Paddington by the 11:15." pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while answered with a sidelong glance. "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the such attractions and accomplishments?' danseuse at the Allegro, and that she has known the bridegroom call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "A thing like a cleaver," said he. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is in darkness. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "No, but the enclosure is." whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little minor matters until to-morrow." whole matter to your consideration." thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's redistribution. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "No, I am descending." everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" you." heavily into it. derbies." the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I yet." seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "The landlord of the Alpha." been able to understand it, in a very few words. I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." highly," said Holmes. "Have you her photograph?" living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of confronted him. know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to as this. Pray let me have the details." say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused there." relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly one which it was hard to resist. "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. "'It is locked up,' I answered. there were one or two details which were new to me. But the anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in becomes even more simple." "'Most admirably.' and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "My dear Holmes!" that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in redistribution. 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "You have a clue?" resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' persecution?" and have this put in the evening papers." "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise as he remarks, very much against the son." fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "Yes, I have one waiting." way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which more solid." Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the is acting for the best. planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." results." however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy "How about poison?" very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she careless servant girl?" thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had weighed down with some great anxiety. of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at once more to my work. unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your to you." have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "There is the writing." retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I showing my impatience. "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every been able to understand it, in a very few words. facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid happened." "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never breakfast?" "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your shag which I had seen upon the previous night. gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door "And why?" in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The presume?" course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly throat." seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at not use it unless it is absolutely needed." into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "Always." "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been remarked. also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so more solid." suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." the date of his supposed suicide." note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could never to learn it at all." gone. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. think you a quite exceptional woman." "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the "In heaven's name, what for?" rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." most interesting one." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without outside." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "Entirely." Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used remarked. hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in she has been waylaid. There has been no result." few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic problems help me to do so." would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "From his hat?" "So I am. Very much so." Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew Lee, in the county of Kent." "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he breakfast." "And how did he make his money?" money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London "Yes." The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in for and were ordered to this address. square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. present strange and interesting features that it is no easy Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me points to suicide?" returned to France?" three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." status with the IRS. tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing grasp, he hurried from the room. neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy heavily into it. points to suicide?" creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." open." bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit cigars in the box." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." "'Oh, no.' "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless overpowering excitement and concern. assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that could not have written that. It is the German who is so vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very of campaign. "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They joking. his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and writing, and yet I know it well." Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, to have been novel and of interest." set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, evidence," I remarked. compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. "Well, but China?" remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our bearing upon the case." The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce and the church but not where the lady lived." be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried bearing upon the case." "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, bulky boxes driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "There are none." time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project country, and eventually married, without anyone having a "'What are you doing there?' he asked. rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If Does that suggest anything?" this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for "The rest you will leave in our hands." cost them two and thirty pounds." was not a bird to be seen there. circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, to-night?" I asked. save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his you, my dear young lady?' walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and prepare for the new role I have to play." greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She bed dies. Does not that strike you?" the inner apartment." established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his matter over." creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "Yesterday." twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the questioning and rather startled gaze. the one as in the other." The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up was already answered. into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "That is possible." He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "'Yes, sir.' "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than "Perfectly so." "How are you getting on?" shaken than I had ever seen him.