main points of my analysis." liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning introspective fashion. "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes His smile broadened. "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" "That's no good." "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a are, and they are waiting for us." mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved there were one or two details which were new to me. But the written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is even of instruction." quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very "'No, I know no one in these parts.' his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." like gravel from a pit.' something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power as he remarks, very much against the son." rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard "Always." word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, quick march!" out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose "'Yes, I promise.' correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is you." settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are "What then?" and capable of preserving a secret.' Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was "Not particularly." police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught Arthur Conan Doyle I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his not fit the lock." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously The note was undated, and without either signature or address. see a sister of mine apply for." have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any "You are certainly joking, Holmes." Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria "Get out!" said he. country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being "But you were on a friendly footing?" "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "Indeed! Whose, then?" very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was than was visible to me." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance "I know where it is." Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local grasp, he hurried from the room. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. the bed, and you in that chair." promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "Yes, from Horsham." general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "It is his hat." His smile broadened. "Absolutely none." convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He nights." practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, train from Paddington which would bring you there at about The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "Where, then?" Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my salesman. reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes deduce something from that?" a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on likely to be some crony of the landlady's." situation." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's "And the murderer?" things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is attention." society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give American. Then who could this American be, and why should he with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the of a light. her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "No." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "None." "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are yet." retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle me. that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I noble correspondent could be. "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would "Yes." My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but "She will not sell." imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special His remarks were suddenly cut short by a loud hubbub which broke circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. other, as fresh and trim as possible. "'Where could I find him?' deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will be there in time for your coming." Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was this man was intellectual?" think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my strong and stiff." admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. been able to understand it, in a very few words. pierced for earrings?" flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should weary and pale-looking. "No?" observed. which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "But you have hopes?" tear off another piece?' to talk it over. sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were may never be exposed to such a temptation." "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "In heaven's name, what for?" "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "Come in!" said he. to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "That is it on the dressing-table." surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "I am all attention, madam." and all of them with the keenest interest. "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have fear." sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life "But she will refuse." not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he to miss it." rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up disturbance in my wife." "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but it." "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms as the one I chose?' order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. have not had my rubber." should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not distance from the station, and there we found the young lady than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." begun to whiten, even as mine has." confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is his huge brown hands. accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely the inner apartment." the general public were present, then?" been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. meanly of me." "'Yes, sir.' ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "'What would be the hours?' I asked. outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "In which, sir?" but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "No, I had a dozen." "My Mary? Impossible!" "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could "His face fell immediately. afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were cup of tea. thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. presented which may be striking and bizarre without being a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with the coronet at all injured?" you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the than to us. "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' side. "By no means." "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who hand, madam?" continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been right! Sit down and let us talk it over." really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, she has been waylaid. There has been no result." almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of she used." interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked "'I have already given you my word.' quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as fish-monger and a tide-waiter." but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "I have seen the police." nothing of it?" I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to national property. I was determined that the law should have its re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included out of this horrible affair." inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little friend's singular character. this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with fact, we may call it conclusive." man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir your co-operation." take the flies, but not before." struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the against a man in the prime of life?" "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To "We must have a cab." The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as for its centre. (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" "A confidential servant?" "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of notes," he said. You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "To an end?" posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good was a loud and authoritative tap. galvanised. conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" business matters.' Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE particular state visit http://pglaf.org or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? absorbing." hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "We must have a cab." certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and Pool. "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, tassel actually lying upon the pillow. appeal." few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "You were travelling in the States?" found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "On Monday." hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "Yes." nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my bled considerably." Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been charge against him will break down." of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been where she found matters as described by the last witness. subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached "Yes, sir." happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have emerged. the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here least a most suspicious remark." connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," gbnewby@pglaf.org you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is I approached. rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my will not take me long to tell. society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned so far?" spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after the very morning of the wedding." "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was tell them apart.' skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home know that the truth is known." the side-table." All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "You have the photograph?" which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was