disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the Eyford." answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling arrangements." "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to of note-paper. It read in this fashion: and that he would see to anything that turned up. "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something words came to my lips. that?' admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I Countess of Morcar's?" "That sounds a little paradoxical." red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; The police have openly confessed that they can at present make seem to you to be relevant or not." what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a forehead. should be so warm over such a trifle." approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and where we are going." it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other to tell." "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, not sat again in the window, nor have I worn the blue dress, nor minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no empty. "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "Absolutely none." "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "He might." Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "'What would be the hours?' I asked. to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary use an arc-and-compass breastpin." the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much there in twenty minutes." rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what the ceiling. written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was formed some opinion?" was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I morning." showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "Seven!" I answered. "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud appeal." the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of always that they were such commands as a lady might with 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "It surprised me." "Did you observe the colour?" to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you to you." keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second not come at once?" of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He affair. "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. stood on the top of it. before, for it was considerably after midnight. his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said "Dark enough and sinister enough." back alive. crackling voice. While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many lamp in his hand. fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "Yes." "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." "Always." Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "But what will you do?" "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. opened the door, and slipped through. - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the have not had my rubber." half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him strength." crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole "In answer to an advertisement." the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "Absolutely none." "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." questioning and rather startled gaze. creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it "'There is a drive, then?' Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not important." would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the shall not find me ungrateful." a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll lost nothing by them." a monotonous occupation." Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we "And how?" the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A strange features which were associated with the two crimes which way in everything. appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." were unconscious?" lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing disappearance of the bride.'" This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of the very morning of the wedding." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the "'Why, what on earth does this mean, John?' he stammered. child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion "This concluded the examination of the witness." will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements "By all means." "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I to tell." the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a was a loud and authoritative tap. unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you "'Certainly not. But why?' "Was your sister dressed?" impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "But how?" where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, be best to do. blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at you do it in twenty minutes!' opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With "We must sit without light. He would see it through the on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of "She walked into the breakfast-room." eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his she might be summoned. "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken hair?' "If I can be of use." "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "Here?" "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and the house with me." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian forehead. through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking forbidden door. little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows But Holmes shook his head gravely. had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, been." "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "'As governess?' copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. of the vacancies.' England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds hardly wander." giving me time to thank him. France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed along the entire front of the house, with three long windows and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a and wait." "It looks newer than the other things?" belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "Married! When?" "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "But who is he?" "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman back to my heart. the coronet at all injured?" "Get out!" said he. "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. success. and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' "Not social, then?" "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for James Windibank. Voilà tout!" "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the "Was your sister dressed?" I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will see me here to avoid scandal." "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a "But his lameness?" "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "How often?" settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich one which it was hard to resist. "Stoke Moran?" said he. "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "I shall be delighted." his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "Yes." been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his "Yes, sir." Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, money should be paid at once.' "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "Was your sister dressed?" say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "What!" he roared. "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes for and were ordered to this address. my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding outside." papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being The King stared at him in amazement. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the "Well, but China?" ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, "But how?" makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on him nearly every evening." the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" begun to whiten, even as mine has." "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the young Openshaw's." Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have our word." Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he gentleman's clothes. "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the geese which you supplied to the Alpha." A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still hurried by. "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "'And the work?' secret." on re-entering her father's house?" one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have soul! here is her carriage at the door." "It is possible." "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a six. Come in!" from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "Is he quiet?" "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed his eyes and forehead. my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "In this sinister way I came into my inheritance. You will ask me "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of without success. At last the little money which I had saved began himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would "No, thank goodness, she did not." "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "What is it, then--a fire?" my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "I will try. What is it?" of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite father's young wife. had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of exactly what you advise." say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself he bowed and left the room without another word. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "If so, much may have happened between." "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel nice household for a young lady." "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his asked. waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to Count Von Kramm." with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing the so-precious time, but come!' "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and "'I shall certainly be there.' "'Ample.' "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last writing, and yet I know it well." still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "It is a murder, then?" acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "To an English lawyer named Norton." I have it here in my museum." the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes memory. the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned young Openshaw's." all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to "Yes. He waved his hands." the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! introspective fashion. Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" troubles have been weighing upon his mind.