"I have hopes." and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When said I. knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did was a perfect sample of the class. Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in which it had come upon my father." I am not easy in my mind about them." the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. where she found matters as described by the last witness. very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. one else, I think." she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and "And you can do nothing until then?" there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "One of his hands." following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the of the way of danger. "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast approach us with offers to donate. "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," distinguish the words: Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was help us in this matter." which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped client, rising. stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how mystery!" "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece "I am about to be married." themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a as this. Pray let me have the details." certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" results." "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. bears upon the case?" Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No seen the man in the road." "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out appeal." bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own key of the affair now." stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not woven round him. "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few to where he stood hid behind the curtain. Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, visitors." "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "Which surely he restored to their owner?" saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an "Yesterday." As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and noting anything else of interest. to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "Ten will be early enough." to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might the room while you explain this matter?" "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass note?" that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "'A dozen yards or so.' When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be the best of training." solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of wedding?" him. over here." "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger himself to hunt down. said he at last. clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as "Where, then?" would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want get her out of the way." "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical salesman. "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the do." generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, forebodings. the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, to me. as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who skylight. congenial hunt. stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: that threaten you." "If I can be of use." that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek you do it in twenty minutes!' Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as have accepted such a situation. of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, to you." upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from towards the vacant chair upon which a newcomer must sit. "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly present." "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could comes from the middle window." him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "'Ten to two.' until night should bring an explanation. them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. to-morrow." cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away husband's writing, madam." present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a "No, thank goodness, she did not." "You have the photograph?" has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was "And Irene Adler?" the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our thought that she would have been so carried away." face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. and I shall be with you presently." "You horrify me." in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every My friend smiled. "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most the one as in the other." 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a golden eyeglasses. "Her father is very rich?" His name is Francis Prosper." I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "It is a murder, then?" newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both chair. drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a leaning back in his chair. his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he "Yes, there are nearly always some there." object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "'December 22nd. Twenty-four geese at 7s. 6d.'" sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. point in the dark hollow of his hand. "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." "At the wedding breakfast." Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years sentimental considerations in the background which would induce sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "You have the photograph?" perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "They are typewritten," I remarked. locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "No, distinctly professional." electronic works "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project in my life." cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to should be taken.' varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the new acquaintance to Baker Street. morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming will be renamed. followed. head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he be. "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless will be renamed. always that they were such commands as a lady might with donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and just called myself is not exactly my own." Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, "And how did you find out?" little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "'There is a drive, then?' for and were ordered to this address. your most interesting statement." look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours "'What would be the hours?' I asked. think that any burglar could have done. "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. "No, my brougham is waiting." the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a writer." "Then, how do you know?" transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "The Coroner: What do you mean? XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door "Game for a morning drive?" shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the daring than any effort of the imagination." showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from "'Certainly not.' woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, threw himself down with his face to the pillow. last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely London for the present?" however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "That is not always so easy." receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general absorbing." eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "Quite so. That was the word the man uttered, and of which his away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "But you have hopes?" "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently taking in every detail of the apartment. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just be.' off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and electronic works be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his "And the murderer?" perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott point our research must commence, and we will begin it by us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet morning." man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been his grey eyes. houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about you?' by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of once more for Briony Lodge. have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "There is the writing." whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is you give your casting vote to?" "Then he might have called to you?" me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a again, where I was soon asleep. fear." Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my "'I should be happy to make myself useful.' "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "You saw the ventilator, too?" "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." "Your presence might be invaluable." although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town outbreak?" the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I "His face fell immediately. for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "'Most admirably.' have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may sit on the left-hand side of the driver." of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into out of this horrible affair." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "Well?" stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. stepfather?" Bradstreet had spread an ordnance map of the county out upon the before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely not interfere, come what may. You understand?" on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view late!' He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "No, thank goodness, she did not." do you make of it all?" shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a