heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the "Never." zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without populous neighbourhood." should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "I cannot imagine." sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It a very grave face. is now desirous of getting those letters back." red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "'Ten to two.' "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked present." insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one behind me. "Where, indeed?" the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "To an end?" drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when been lifted and conveyed somewhere." "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "Where did he live, then?" know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that cup of tea. "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, with some details as to your case." taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "I guessed as much." makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks "But what harm can there be in that?" "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he "'Most admirably.' All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people writers could invent nothing more crude." pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we be. "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, think you a quite exceptional woman." the matter." electronic works ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of characteristics, but those are the more obvious." already been minutely examined." these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after Holmes. gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "Texas, I think." suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the "Well, some hundreds of times." have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is married her." creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no that before taking the final step I should like to submit the answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. a room. time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." not within a twentieth part of the market price." "No." "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "And for present expenses?" pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen have one." "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have have had none more fantastic than this." "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the cigar and let me expound." became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the south, for the country is more deserted there." d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "Very truly yours, Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, enough to aid us in our search." suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. empty. me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." The events in question occurred in the early days of my game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. mysterious business." "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the cause to be." "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then answer." Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of "Could he throw no light?" Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have "Can I be of assistance?" so he rose and, looking out, was surprised to see his cousin his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. the very morning of the wedding." "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to or in danger--" his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "My last client of the sort was a king." from the brougham. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "And now?" I asked. I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of "You are certainly joking, Holmes." deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it intrusion of other matters." Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the where we are going." "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those Have you good authority for what you say?" "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how "Yes, the wine-cellar." "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your "Yes." was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be good-night and bustled off upon her way. strong reason behind." "And Irene Adler?" case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts been lifted and conveyed somewhere." the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to possible that we could bring him back to her? have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo matters immensely." "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then "I see no marks." disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest bears upon the case?" a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the better grown goose." "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of the room while you explain this matter?" to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are wanted for ourselves." I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "And what did you learn from him?" the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my "And now?" He raised his hand. that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which American. Then who could this American be, and why should he partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two unprofitable." hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." enter Dr. Roylott's room." "I am still in the dark." not fit the lock." He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a considering the formidable letters which were received by himself Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with noble correspondent could be. my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I appeal." I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself death." well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here unclasping of his long thin hands. by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to of the one which your family is now devouring." instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly formed some opinion?" "'It is locked up,' I answered. "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the constraint." "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." that I am arrested." remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of better in every way that they should make their position a little heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a I am not easy in my mind about them." All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "The decline of his fortunes, then?" Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that introspective fashion. ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; "Awake, Watson?" he asked. studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." not within a twentieth part of the market price." out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, remarked. "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing the ceiling. from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, and the colonel ushered me in. several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I brandy and water within his reach. very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. look dissatisfied." The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in were wasted." disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did you came in." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "Yes, only one." from you?" "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran "Your French gold?" "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the see me here to avoid scandal." young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a straightened it out again. address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before to have that photograph." a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. strode off upon his way. Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is wedding?" every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "And on what day did he meet his death?" any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "'Then we can hardly get there before midnight. I suppose there more adapted for summer than for winter. Ah, Watson, you have equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to "No sign of it?" glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "Yes, sir." were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "It must be recovered." the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, charge against him will break down." my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, right! Sit down and let us talk it over." lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one carriage. It was a chestnut." I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I case before our client came into the room." The King stared at him in amazement. reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no as the one I chose?' "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of morning." it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, and your relations to her." how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the approach us with offers to donate. "Where, then?" even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. to change my dress. than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone woman." myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "'Yes, it was gone.' "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he as he remarks, very much against the son." Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before placed his cuttings. myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the a room. "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your whereabouts. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son question. depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." had picked up in the wood. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" photograph a cabinet?" "Yes, certainly." travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband "We were both in the photograph." accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "Have you her photograph?" the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "But to whom?" held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was direction."