dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't this truth that in these little records of our cases which you "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of room?" permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous upon the white wrist. "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." be there in time for your coming." the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither "'Certainly,' I answered. opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which the running down." importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is Munro.' this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid held up the lantern and gazed about him. after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of the very letters. But what is this written above them?' staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, a room. doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It "No, I had a dozen." begun to whiten, even as mine has." sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at because she had spent so short a time in this country that she lids now and glanced across at his visitor. hurried away. the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you room?" ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, "'I have heard so.' Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for that you can jump it.' swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what now. It seems that there had been some informality about their the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us sake, don't!" bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and note?" which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in against a man in the prime of life?" to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." "I cannot as yet see any connection." advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something "How often?" eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of that?' belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent one else, I think." particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "You have a clue?" suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that ways including including checks, online payments and credit card the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has it." "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." and wait." to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "I was afraid that you were engaged." discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "The King of Scandinavia." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the ordinary clothes on?" c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I The summons was a brief and urgent one. very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be family of Colonel Spence Munro, but two months ago the colonel his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' over with notes and figures. have had none more fantastic than this." He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted to that open window." "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "I will get her to show me." "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, "Here?" province." "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have "Yes." past. from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round said he, "my real name is James Ryder." "'There is a drive, then?' had a long day." would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the "If I can be of use." all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the your billet.' your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, and your relations to her." continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes said he. "Pray let us have it, for all that." "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, miles off. and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those lost his Christmas dinner." settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, garden below. following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some "And what then?" "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." of receipt of the work. which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little the very letters. But what is this written above them?' certainly repay what you advance, with whatever interest you shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "'No, I know no one in these parts.' letters?" Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves "You were travelling in the States?" carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "I will get her to show me." knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an system of imprisonment?" "I am to be neutral?" "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he acquaintance?" There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for name is different." will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have characteristics, but those are the more obvious." was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders Street. screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "You horrify me." "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you without success. At last the little money which I had saved began the running down." his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips conceal it?" "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a "The King of Scandinavia." grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards several quiet little villages up there." stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "None." "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of wanted for ourselves." we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could until night should bring an explanation. companion. of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "What then?" When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "It looks newer than the other things?" had formerly been in part my own. she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are the ceiling. sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is question you as to those details which seem to me to be most of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. hair?' He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out posted to-day." "Well, it is a possible supposition." saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, be sorry for having acted so harshly." I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "So I heard. You have him here?" "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the your only hope of safety." Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "Well, some hundreds of times." it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as the nursery. had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to on in his house." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "ARAT," I read. methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the had died away into the silence from which it rose. fuss that is made over them." woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the "One of the highest in England." tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one stalked out of the room. companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' "And why?" kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the nonsense.' "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms "Oh, yes, easily." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET is worth.' "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There window when the police appeared." his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "By no means." were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, Munro.' future lives." in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it someone who had been in Australia." Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, there in twenty minutes." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You instincts rose up against that laugh. himself to tell his story. felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "A confidential servant?" "Quite so." position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "No bad?" "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "Pray let us have it, for all that." train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been it." week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the point in the dark hollow of his hand. anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, electronic works appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much did not hear it also.' terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and words came to my lips. long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of in his hands." other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and on such a day and at such an hour. But I take it that it is more Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "What is it, then--a fire?" It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "I think that I had better go, Holmes." the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however,