Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated this remarkable episode. a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part into the room. "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "Ah!" "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban Pope's Court, Fleet Street." but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do Miss Holder?" certainly do as you advise." living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that "I have come for advice." him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the subject to the trademark license, especially commercial unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." himself to tell his story. "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used behind me. "Yes, at the mines." Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each in the dead of the night?' "Nothing." again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my ordinary clothes on?" If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, I took the paper from him and read as follows: wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. and I shall be with you presently." "The decline of his fortunes, then?" in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies impression behind it as though a window had gently closed seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who "'As governess?' impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say "So I have heard." day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we "Which are?" "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I "I say it is." suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. instincts rose up against that laugh. secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and "It is no ordinary one." "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "Married! When?" your bag." and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman since then to throw any light upon what became of him." wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California will not take me long to tell. then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' "'Certainly,' I answered. Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy walking." "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "The doctor?" certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls over with notes and figures. sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his excitement. in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "But what is it you wish?" in a very precise fashion." might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the "It is a murder, then?" good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had was the fact that his father should, according to his account, inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a people don't know." matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. mind as I approached the door lest the dog might be loose, but I by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and "And I say east," said my patient. erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did power." companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to second." "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "'What, the red-headed man?' daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend careless servant girl?" ceremony." she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "I think that it is very probable." reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally the ceiling. have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. hereditary King of Bohemia." answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you sake, don't!" avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "'You cannot say what it was?' who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who when your master had gone out." He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve arms and began to sob in a high treble key. there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. which we had just quitted. in the hope of finding them." "How many? I don't know." "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "Certainly." do." It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he behind me. may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "I promise," said Holmes. "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked him." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for Project Gutenberg-tm works. active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "Yes, there are nearly always some there." could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my question. held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was and the whole place is in a blaze." "My own seal." wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the My friend smiled. had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time indeed which he could not unravel. typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business face and glided from the room. even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which allusion to a rat. quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a not interfere, come what may. You understand?" subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "Well, some hundreds of times." "Certainly." frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The see me here to avoid scandal." open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen instituted." hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt "None." daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and locked." "Why? What do you mean?" returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was sooner or later she must fall a victim. the address that was given us in the advertisement. above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. allusion to a rat. Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small power." "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached six. Come in!" third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed may have an influence upon European history." "It is half-past ten now." a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he singular points about the case. What did the police think of the rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a and the church but not where the lady lived." hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell "Here?" "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of dramatic, in fact." the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the delirious. enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its again, where I was soon asleep. me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met was not a bird to be seen there. usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a voice, changing her seat as requested. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his interests were the same as his." helping a boy to put up the shutters. to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" back alive. to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we to you." answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been standing smiling on the door-step. "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "How many? I don't know." it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "'Quite sure, dad.' vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a "My photograph." my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian business came to an end." asked with his eyes open. "I was afraid that you were engaged." return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." three fields round his house, and there he would take his "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the o'clock is it?" unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you "Here?" address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." appointment with me for six o'clock?" "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "And how in the world did you find them?" dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "Pray tell us what has happened to you." "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself for and were ordered to this address. slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "I beg pardon." "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling the coronet at all injured?" "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger voice. where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." could go. only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "And how did you find out?" said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not During two years I have had three consultations and one small freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "Get out!" said he. salesman. about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. "And the cigar-holder?" "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated late!' "'Ample.' of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called "Yes." what these perils are?" a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same married her." floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be during the last few years, and there are many noble families to I held the little printed slip to the light. scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have would then never go into court at all." weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "Yes." was a lad." we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "You think that he is dead?" so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "But how could you guess what the motive was?" I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it "Did your wife hear all this?" "Absolutely none." has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. bedroom door." until night should bring an explanation. "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once window when the police appeared." for the market.' "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." to that open window." sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the of fine shops and stately business premises that they really fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." present strange and interesting features that it is no easy