"Why did you pick him?" these bleak autumnal evenings." living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "It is half-past ten now." work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to quick march!" and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "Yesterday." "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." may have an influence upon European history." WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him the roots. article?" from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "Not in the least." entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after "'As governess?' himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper to-night's adventure." vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he roused himself from his reverie. and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a prepare for the new role I have to play." you found me to-night--and running through the front room she said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the matter with me now, and, if God sends me health, I shall set my abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and trifles." without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No "I would give my fortune to have them back." "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "It may not come to that," said Holmes. friend's singular character. have established a very serious case against the son of the defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." of note-paper. It read in this fashion: uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "'I am sure that I do not know.' a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set "To an English lawyer named Norton." something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until and files of the old papers, following the future career of every I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice gives a meaning to it." A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast to go into your room and bar your shutters?" "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the be sorry for having acted so harshly." who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern to some other building. his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the memory. routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." was keenly on my guard against him. drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side ceremony." off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "My dear Holmes!" "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "Was your sister dressed?" and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own with you alone." you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to shaken than I had ever seen him. is worth.' borne a stain. Private affliction also is the lot of every man; traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That gives a meaning to it." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "Nothing." fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the writers could invent nothing more crude." "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air ourselves in the office." evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was made his money." Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant kind enough to tell me what I should do." handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even to-night." our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to developed." some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the of the one which your family is now devouring." "My private note-paper." the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. dead, shall be safe with us." "What of the rat, then?" ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" an introduction to him?" to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, where Mr. Fordham shows you.' hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "And that is--" voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "You will not go there first?" "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the been deceived." my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "You have compromised yourself seriously." I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary think that he is innocent?" desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, she to prove their authenticity?" India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "But the mystery?" but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, "I see many objections to any such theory." the armchair which I pushed forward for him. carpenter." "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "I shall most certainly do so." One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. your billet.' foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "Why, it's a dummy," said he. passage and a tap at the door. "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' followed. along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "Precisely." had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the Munro.' autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a later, upon the night of May 2nd." professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of other means.' twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "An enemy?" "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an following enigmatical notices: unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. man. I know him from the photograph." was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. and that he would see to anything that turned up. my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob "He is still with you, I presume?" foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with flock.' bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon stepfather?" room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." you understand?" "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you during that time.' address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates noise which awoke you from your sleep?" threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "How did you trace it, then?" bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." prepare for the new role I have to play." "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable "Oh, fresh and glossy." "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. "How about poison?" appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "From his hat?" lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the then?" "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it only touch the interest." of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp man. I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, meanly of me." good-night and bustled off upon her way. country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, DISSOLVED. strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see and laid it on the table. "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my "No." probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you without a word or a look. out." when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' From what you have told me I think that it is possible that herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to asked with his eyes open. "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so him to go away.' "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be gone. finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to cost them two and thirty pounds." dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white "That is easily got." withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want our word." been." gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "May I see it?" rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed "And sit in the dark?" while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "None. Neville wrote those words." "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons American. Then who could this American be, and why should he distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down written, and locked the door of the office after me. more solid." the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a you understand?" arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down tension within him. some water from a caraffe. to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter digesting their breakfasts at home." alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was companion imperturbably. felt the room to be a little close.' "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to writer." headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "'Oh, no.' Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after "But what is it you wish?" "Yes, that is the Crown." John Swain, of St. Augustine. For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right "I fear not." with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good sake, don't!" success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are at my own good fortune. suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The felt?" The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. "You have carte blanche." relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an this poor creature." "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by success. and files of the old papers, following the future career of every from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which strange features which were associated with the two crimes which have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the