"'And the work?' "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "Pray do so." I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic is four-and-twenty." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to "When did she vanish, then?" with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would his face which made him a very different person to the round, could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room there were so many in the whole country as were brought together often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered sooner or later she must fall a victim. Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "Then what has happened to him?" six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "We have tried and failed." "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "Yes." thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United intrusion of other matters." vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, the address that was given us in the advertisement. "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "Come in!" said he. ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest hand, madam?" help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come front of me. showing my impatience. plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of which we had just quitted. this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, to have been novel and of interest." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "I was afraid that you were engaged." Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the bearing upon the case." and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting skylight. papers." "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads electronic works "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "'I shall certainly be there.' observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for to talk it over. carried out of court." key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The "Frequently." strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his one of them." subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the said he. "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." me have 200 pounds?' the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "That you are never beaten." that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, pound a week." "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a character. its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, that threaten you." red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to directly by questioning you." unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" sparkled upon his finger. in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "And you thought he was pulled back?" rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of had no one to advise her at such a crisis." It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right "And how have you succeeded?" nothing of it?" the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "I am to be neutral?" such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; "No, thank goodness, she did not." bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I swore that no one else had been in the front room during the I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They even of instruction." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no gives a meaning to it." following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk answer." once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just believe that I should never have any practice at all. the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "But I have heard all that you have heard." fatally injured? cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord train from Paddington which would bring you there at about approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "'What do you call purely nominal?' yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, photograph?" professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs photograph a cabinet?" tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable over part of the map. "What do you read?" said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was compunction about shooting them down." where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his and it need not interfere very much with one's other window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "Then I am your man." As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. "You'll never persuade me to believe that." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "No, distinctly professional." met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to "'How far from the body?' "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest ill-usage at the hands of fortune. It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had was keenly on my guard against him. what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all indeed which he could not unravel. the bed, and you in that chair." rose-bushes. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' everything which you would wish to know." Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "No." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. bare slabs of marble. is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. his fortune, and I went back to pa. he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in him. anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up test if we have an answer to our advertisement." remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to bonnet, and went out." repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. see me here to avoid scandal." Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting existence." light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "Yes, that is the Crown." "You have but to name it." was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think way: there in twenty minutes." "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for answered with a sidelong glance. down from London to inquire more deeply into it." hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man national property. I was determined that the law should have its figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little not within a twentieth part of the market price." not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in have got?" trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at "'Ample.' "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day "Was there a secret marriage?" long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "No. What a strange idea!" and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to do you make of it all?" words came to my lips. instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the of the matter first." He gathered up the garments, thrust them this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and as noiselessly as she had come. daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "To ruin me." going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of "But your client--" peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "You heard nothing yourself last night?" man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and companion. down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his case-book, which he consulted. believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year some water from a caraffe. shoulder; "he's all right." But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very "What then?" "And on what day did he meet his death?" passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My persecution?" you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and "And it is--" leave you to your papers for a little." perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions said he, "my real name is James Ryder." the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "No legal papers or certificates?" think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which both be extremely obliged.' helping a boy to put up the shutters. investigation." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to your troubles." the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking exactly what you advise." was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to of the way of danger. "In answer to an advertisement." some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I and shall probably return to London by the evening train." find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "I say it is." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my distance from the station, and there we found the young lady was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not washing it down with a long draught of water. possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "He slept on the premises." after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always "I am to be neutral?" "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always his eyes and forehead. have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle bedroom door." fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "You have carte blanche." We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "It looks newer than the other things?" explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "Quite so. She has her freedom." "No, my brougham is waiting." round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a my special province." It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Not particularly." "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "Why serious?" outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." questioning and rather startled gaze. Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "Get out!" said he. the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "And your mother is alive?" explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good national property. I was determined that the law should have its staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and fuss that is made over them." It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the lips." before, for it was considerably after midnight. inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. "This photograph!" o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily the devil!" "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "You'll never persuade me to believe that." not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "Certainly." "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate think that any burglar could have done. that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any