comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." "Certainly." occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had "Yes." very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than is entirely a question of barometric pressure." off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such ago." the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were "Where, indeed?" "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole away into the river." time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could triumphant cloud from his cigarette. that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "That also I could fathom." destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would "When did she vanish, then?" recover the gem." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic yards of it?' of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his some place of shelter and let the county police know what has tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking lowered my handkerchief and glanced at Mrs. Rucastle to find her room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this "It's nothing of the kind." remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a "Then the page we have seen--" of." light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For lips." is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography "You saw the ventilator, too?" 'please.'" and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "May I see it?" disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope new duties?' work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. "I was mad--insane." the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as burst into a hearty fit of laughter. was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "And you thought he was pulled back?" and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a IS imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself to where he stood hid behind the curtain. reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as photograph?" "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his Lee, in the county of Kent." "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of him nearly every evening." "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no been shamefully used." face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a she used." I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the behind me. thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have advice." these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, hereditary King of Bohemia." at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." companion imperturbably. which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, murdered man." were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "I am in hopes that she does." ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "She showed me, as I told you she would." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed "Yes." the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "Ten will be early enough." would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning Again Holmes raved in the air. once more to my work. "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "What can you not understand?" But Holmes shook his head gravely. you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. again on its way. morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with at once see that someone had passed out. I could distinguish the grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses had a long day." Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless public press." envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a the one as in the other." the side-table." dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal of the one which your family is now devouring." Count Von Kramm." his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the indeed happy." second window is the one that I jumped from." against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense a few minutes he said that it would be all right. many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. "Your presence might be invaluable." bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which "And it is--" eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the of this gang." time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This his grey eyes. sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "I am still in the dark." conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, served to weaken the effect. photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as know all about it," he snarled. coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight passage and a tap at the door. with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be know what is wrong with it.' Leave Paddington by the 11:15." open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, through." success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "I think that I had better go, Holmes." cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." again, where I was soon asleep. "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret wedding?" saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his way in." doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." train.' a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" that I am arrested." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the through." impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the the window, rose as we entered. attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the morning." 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but "Will you go?" fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS with you?" "I think that I had better go, Holmes." the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "Pray do so." Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into your own bird, so if you wish--" "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man with some details as to your case." the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of during the last few years, and there are many noble families to It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for "From his hat?" station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became this poor creature." thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her heavily into it. sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "No, I think that I'll take it." "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" "Pray let us have it, for all that." "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his disturbance in my wife." read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, the matter." "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a and effective." "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish a little more before I quite committed myself. singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." photograph a cabinet?" "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place "But how will you look?" like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." intimate personal affairs in this public manner." Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. details should find their way into the papers. Inspector of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have so far?" is now desirous of getting those letters back." you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "But what is it you wish?" young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the nonsense.' fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "My last client of the sort was a king." have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, at a side door. however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend "But to whom?" likely to be some crony of the landlady's." "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "Proceed, then." "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers 1.E.9. possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "The best possible." success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried the devil!" 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly new acquaintance to Baker Street. after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "She walked into the breakfast-room." of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some developed." INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried with frightened eyes at his accuser. 'please.'" touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another morning." friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle about. "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "Did your wife hear all this?" window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" upon an income of about 60 pounds." the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face young Openshaw's." tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You but preventing her from injuring another. unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as would then never go into court at all." of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "I think that it is very probable." income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 for the market.' "But I have heard all that you have heard." claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "But we can't all be." he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the the night.' she used." George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "But how?" harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy which we had just quitted. lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard it." an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own evidence," I remarked. and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was business at Coburg Square is serious." later, upon the night of May 2nd." fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see Count Von Kramm." and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a "Awake, Watson?" he asked. contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different would then never go into court at all." for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "Yes, sir." years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time Miss Holder?" believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in were new raised from a basin. Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. it. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned "What can you not understand?" eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in then?" set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in disturbance in my wife." there were one or two details which were new to me. But the something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, from the brougham. The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were or other trace. But how on earth--" hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some