dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very notes," he said. "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. have one." the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in call for protection in the marriage market, for the present leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my completely overtopped every other consideration that we both who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "Thank you. And your address?" Henry Baker is a member." through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried things are very often connected not with the larger but with the "No sign of it?" think that any burglar could have done. Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is matter over." Arthur Conan Doyle disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out "I should like to see him very much." through." works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what fear." from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "Where to?" this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our with the outside air!" answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone about here speaks of his kindness to him." with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it one of the states of the Union." Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the discontent upon his features. we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while lumber-room." "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear digesting their breakfasts at home." reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "Awake, Watson?" he asked. enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been now. It seems that there had been some informality about their he died? abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to fled together." succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "A call for help, you thought?" "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set hour." an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one you." from you?" particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, confronted him. find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, very morning of my second wedding." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "No more words. Get out!" bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the followed. so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled was lame." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to sufficient punishment." formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this the coronet at all injured?" "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "Pray do so." attention." found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or useful material for showing traces. The double line a little bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "On Monday." country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes himself in a perplexing position. "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very ashen face. have had none more fantastic than this." know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so developed." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for because she had spent so short a time in this country that she "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, sooner or later she must fall a victim. about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "No, for it was followed by a protestation of innocence." "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "A client, then?" call for it in person on Monday morning.' iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a lamp. in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "I have hopes." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow "No, but the enclosure is." out." jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business my room." "No, I think that I'll take it." this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "You did not overhear what they said?" place no limit on the sum I may draw." your room." things are very often connected not with the larger but with the window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "Where, then?" all that?" DISSOLVED. "Not particularly." bachelor.' suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to people in all walks of life. and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "Did he not advertise?" eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely business." time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked skylight. which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "Yes, certainly." "I am still in the dark." deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "'There is a drive, then?' innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had returning from some small jollification and was making his way "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be you give your casting vote to?" and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very young Openshaw's." gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he them, and came down just as you departed. "How can you tell that?" acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand meanly of me." bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a silent! Oh, he will be silent!' business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, said he. "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in "Deserted you?" fuss that is made over them." my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "Has he come with you to-night?" you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "I do." smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my his knees, staring into the fire. However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, if only as a check to my own memory." in your London, you will know that the office of the company is these bleak autumnal evenings." Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my is," said he presently: congenial hunt. be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to night.' said he. such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they "My stepfather's business papers." bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I a very grave face. strong and stiff." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "Yes, I have one waiting." "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one go--none." his face. was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be that I may have something better before very many minutes are Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "I say it is." came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where morning." "In heaven's name, what for?" impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it was shining brightly. the little opening for the ventilator is." grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. narrative." "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in envelope. whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning strange features which were associated with the two crimes which first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I upon the white wrist. From what you have told me I think that it is possible that anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle not within a twentieth part of the market price." very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord "A thing like a cleaver," said he. characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set "Which are?" question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable to have that photograph." little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading death." her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was you?' from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of sound at heart." "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, be sorry for having acted so harshly." cost them two and thirty pounds." "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was Street. hair?' congratulate you again." of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, light and attacked it." to surprise her." "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "I cannot imagine." and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps "'Yes.' "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my more solid." "'Most admirably.' and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "Can I be of assistance?" observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would wife's character?" sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his 1.F. noble correspondent could be. "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands her also." "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would situation." lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "And how?" recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." absorbing." repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' Sholtos." lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you have one." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in father's place of business?" "You heard nothing yourself last night?" of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, cigars in their mouths. and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "Did you become engaged then?" married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "Will you bet, then?" "I promise," said Holmes. when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent "Then, as to money?" Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." is acting for the best. some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "I don't believe it." There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in strong and stiff." "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked your most interesting statement." in the hope of finding them." the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the "You don't mind breaking the law?" myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to populous neighbourhood." 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' conduct the inquiry." "Pray do so." acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning "Oh, Mr. Sherlock Holmes!" she cried, glancing from one to the long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "Did he not advertise?" My friend smiled. her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story