be sorry for having acted so harshly." and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee ashen face. her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had so far?" was not a red-head to be seen except my own and that of the "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "'Not at all. I only doubt--' "Never." his forehead." "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could Project Gutenberg-tm works. credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too have established a very serious case against the son of the unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "What! Had he lost his wife?" moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms his wife has ceased to love him." appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of interests were the same as his." charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his more solid." success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "Certainly." they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to garden below. something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and "No more words. Get out!" I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing "Can I be of assistance?" way: individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" and effective." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. indiscretion." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the place no limit on the sum I may draw." after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary sit on the left-hand side of the driver." know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes ventilator." dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "He disappeared so suddenly." colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either about here speaks of his kindness to him." that you can jump it.' of your young ladies.' At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "Absolutely none." will he say when he returns?" The events in question occurred in the early days of my was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the would then never go into court at all." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which followed. The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend appeal." you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had meanly of me." "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "'Certainly not. But why?' "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the whether it answered to the description of any of their Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when society." eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man it? Did I buy the geese off you?" the house with me." "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a hardly wander." the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, colonel looking down at me. were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we than was visible to me." rat could hardly pass through." either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your I took the paper from him and read as follows: his face which made him a very different person to the round, lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "Which surely he restored to their owner?" retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she fishes. "No?" up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out "I have my revolver," said I. You want to know what became of those geese?" "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But assist you in forming an opinion." convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an three of the beryls in it, was missing. man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been thought that she would have been so carried away." always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has events, Mr. Windibank!" my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me fattened it expressly for you.' lost his Christmas dinner." "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his guilty one." the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by presented which may be striking and bizarre without being place no limit on the sum I may draw." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted "That's no good." Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" "Perhaps we may make them less so." silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the completely overtopped every other consideration that we both again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between been lifted and conveyed somewhere." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even arms and began to sob in a high treble key. might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "Pray be precise as to details," said he. some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the "Ample." "Perhaps I have." the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "Your sister is dead, then?" some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "I would give my fortune to have them back." before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "Not social, then?" of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body will find little credit to be gained out of this case." he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "I am all attention, madam." "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in have established a very serious case against the son of the but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land "That is easily got." garden below. She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered rat could hardly pass through." "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. "Absolutely none." "I warn you that they are very incomplete." To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." "Where did you address your letters, then?" are, I think, all that we need." puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "But how could you guess what the motive was?" "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went do you make of it all?" from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and kind enough to tell me what I should do." saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. and all of them with the keenest interest. Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of there were so many in the whole country as were brought together for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had against a man in the prime of life?" "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these asked with his eyes open. offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found she used." before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "Oh, the cause is excellent!" "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "Quite so." at my own good fortune. think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and in one or two places in England?' "Well, but China?" unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came "I was mad--insane." keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from was it brought him the coronet? collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler read over the extraordinary announcement. some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be matters immensely." "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "I guessed as much." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "If I can be of use." given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was individual and becomes the badge of a society." with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Holmes." populous neighbourhood." traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an will find little credit to be gained out of this case." over here." "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your unclasping of his long thin hands. from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "Her father is very rich?" coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "At what time?" Holmes rather sternly. preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. impression behind it as though a window had gently closed It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first business." address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the shoulder; "he's all right." We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "What do you make of that, Watson?" to surprise her." twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." it were putty." however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the helping a boy to put up the shutters. husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. article, for example, as to the disappearance of the bride." taking in every detail of the apartment. which it had come upon my father." "From his hat?" "Deserted you?" me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of that, and I came down." is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "Certainly." coat-tails." of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery some city in a dream. His name is Francis Prosper." thought that she would have been so carried away." outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope a very grave face. took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "Will you go?" "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the nothing with him." there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any "You think that he is dead?" ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their and looked back. "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." or other trace. But how on earth--" "My Mary? Impossible!" of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, which we had just quitted. copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "I will get her to show me." "You are hungry," I remarked. even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name other lovers by making love himself." face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was with you?" to a more successful conclusion." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened the very morning of the wedding." heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "Not in the least." glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the mystery may be cleared along those lines." glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off business." she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally voice. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. "Not I." in the dead of the night?' of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and to tackle the facts." dead, shall be safe with us." If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual companion imperturbably. pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" the one as in the other." an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "I cannot as yet see any connection." We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot as noiselessly as she had come. dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and before the coroner and the police-court." WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "It surprised me." opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story "So I have heard." depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "Where did he live, then?" IS with frightened eyes at his accuser. to surprise her." "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in straighten it?" Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. "Stoke Moran?" said he. "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "VIOLET HUNTER." of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case depend upon your compliance." think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, to tackle the facts." uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the I leave." "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with Henry Baker is a member." "It is very kind of you." "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "But we can't all be."