"I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." families. Now for the facts. were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my people in all walks of life. the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, certainly not very gracious." blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let to have that photograph." "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a the inquest, and which are worth considering." had picked up in the wood. "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I new duties?' "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is returned to France?" at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely "Yes." on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would know all about it," he snarled. "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own if only as a check to my own memory." "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." less than 26s. 4d. happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet laugh and put his lips to my ear. income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "Awake, Watson?" he asked. "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." think, you have already met." true." "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "I think that it is very probable." Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a the Assizes." near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by His smile broadened. congenial hunt. 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a and all of them with the keenest interest. Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads indeed which he could not unravel. through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such child?' writing, and yet I know it well." robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. of the vacancies.' Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon through." "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "She will not sell." more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden "No, thank goodness, she did not." which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "Very well, sir. And this stone?" following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. "About a month then." 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "My opinion is in no way altered." that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "How on earth--" their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the said I. face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to "Ah!" the room while you explain this matter?" held up the lantern and gazed about him. observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "You saw the ventilator, too?" of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "But he might be a bachelor." been anything against him. He had for years been known as a with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "Yes, that is the Crown." which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a "'And what are they worth?' I asked. Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, you give your casting vote to?" this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a back into the street. making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." Eyford at 11:15.' as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly lumber-room." pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my there." "I am in hopes that she does." then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and "'In my own bureau.' material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "I am sure." my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "None." ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the "Pray do so." doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. fishes. not as remarkable as your advertisement." America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King strange features which were associated with the two crimes which coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "It missed him, then?" individual and becomes the badge of a society." distinguish the words: hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." as this. Pray let me have the details." and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the away into the river." events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great over his head with a sweet womanly caress. furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "But the mystery?" of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "But of what society?" about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" throat." without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the will be renamed. "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I "And I say east," said my patient. The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a house for five minutes.' not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "Ah!" from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of I think that I could be of assistance to you." although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town "Stolen, then." "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." question you as to those details which seem to me to be most not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. to surprise her." foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange at home. This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you written. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it recover the gem." manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue even of instruction." "One of his hands." He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of "How did you trace it, then?" to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door the stable lane now." morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was beg that you will break it off." entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "My Mary? Impossible!" "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled the devil!" little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would upon the sideboard." highroad, where all traces were lost. "Well?" unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody a room. must compliment you." door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The chambers. handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of tear off another piece?' at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the astonishment. be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out second." "Well, but China?" "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in occupations.' gentleman's clothes. "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden round and wave him away like that.' It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for that I may have something better before very many minutes are should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled During two years I have had three consultations and one small 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "It is very clear." or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "Your presence might be invaluable." a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a address. "'Certainly not. But why?' my room." right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." "I am about to be married." in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long drawing your inferences." "Then the page we have seen--" "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see memory. yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever carpenter." pierced for earrings?" way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but the little opening for the ventilator is." have got?" vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, advice." three of the beryls in it, was missing. outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what "Do you go out much in society?" clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. It was close upon four before the door opened, and a derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with third from London." endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg guilty parties." the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "I think that I had better go, Holmes." surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. help us in this matter." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the best detective that ever lived. villagers almost as much as their master. vault. back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I any little problem which you may submit to me." most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then Stoke Moran." "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both "But you have hopes?" "Not social, then?" never came back." of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of Dr. Gregory B. Newby about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from instincts rose up against that laugh. "In what way?" asked Holmes. opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main she used." walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you drove away. "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he round and wave him away like that.' low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, unkempt, staring out at me. Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock distance from the station, and there we found the young lady "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur awkward doing business with an alias." slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were started for the Temple to see my husband. probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their to-night?' problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to Pope's Court. you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "'As governess?' "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" three of the beryls in it, was missing. absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of opportunities to fix the problem. "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door showing my impatience. in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the always that they were such commands as a lady might with to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to spark where all is dark to me." Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "Pray let us have it, for all that." interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "That is possible." Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "I am armed." unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "'Oh, no.' "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. lumber-room." "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of Leadenhall Street--and--" the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one them?" wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save