signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the morning." enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given you." Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You into the room. could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "It is no ordinary one." heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. south, for the country is more deserted there." Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try all?" LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; appointment with me for six o'clock?" Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences your Highness to the police-station?" lumber-room." feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in was feeling which was the fattest.' member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had entirely devoid of interest." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. maiden herself was most instructive." you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the likely to be some crony of the landlady's." and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know Project Gutenberg-tm works. the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard "No legal papers or certificates?" "Then you may be so with me." providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of little adventures." must be when I saw the door open.' with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is has little to do with my story." have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater himself to hunt down. of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp the so-precious time, but come!' Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "Absolutely none." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young that he will be back before evening." him." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE "Proceed, then." "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the "Deserted you?" "And is that all?" are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't down. just called myself is not exactly my own." found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "None." ADVENTURE III. A CASE OF IDENTITY disturbance in my wife." beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "How did you trace it, then?" reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight death." and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your name is different." the night.' papers diligently of late, have you not?" and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "Stolen." previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." distance from the station, and there we found the young lady of the way of danger. I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were question you as to those details which seem to me to be most It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of and glanced through. maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the asked. common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "'Never.' "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the read over the extraordinary announcement. and wait." is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "Pray let us have it, for all that." "That is not always so easy." "Not in a good cause." however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by "Dark enough and sinister enough." less than 26s. 4d. away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer foresight and the moral retrogression?" first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a Foundation have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this detained." to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, searched, without anything being found which could incriminate "I cannot imagine." late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both ourselves in the office." There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was The note was undated, and without either signature or address. deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. and inquire as to the address." see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "And how did he make his money?" does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "Have you it here?" surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so passage and a tap at the door. back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to rooms." she has been waylaid. There has been no result." month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any "'What are you doing there?' he asked. from the brougham. "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading with frightened eyes at his accuser. the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." October 9, 1890. grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he or in danger--" Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of know what is wrong with it.' part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are time." "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you was shining brightly. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by down. change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and copied or distributed: had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. "I was amused by her society, and she could see that I was "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas business at Coburg Square is serious." unprecedented a position." manager. on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he fish-monger and a tide-waiter." not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this think that any burglar could have done. matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, figure." Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into she slowly sank and died without having recovered her bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. crime." "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "Have you her photograph?" heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the Farm upon the left." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you trifles." "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would see me here to avoid scandal." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the handed it to him. see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" "Where is it, then?" so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that more terrible than the truth. "You have a clue?" my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. Holmes." unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "It certainly sounds feasible." the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and papers." "In heaven's name, what for?" look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is how narrow had been my escape. his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists electronic works year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this "What then?" you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, like that before?" there were so many in the whole country as were brought together look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill foresight and the moral retrogression?" air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked may have an influence upon European history." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary and the whole place is in a blaze." parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the brain must have something in it." that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the Eyford at 11:15.' "Stoke Moran?" said he. last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside "When did it break out?" nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out the south-west, I see." space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so have one." usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened Eyford." society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear both be extremely obliged.' focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, will take you up to see the machine.' evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending "None. Neville wrote those words." have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said events than those which have happened in my own family." gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a roused himself from his reverie. which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of "What?" and have this put in the evening papers." case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and bachelor.' been deceived." Sutherland?" was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be Holmes. treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This believe that I should never have any practice at all. "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking relief. blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again overpowering excitement and concern. the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and been with you?" London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." "So I have heard." and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to hurried by. sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was sooner or later she must fall a victim. Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four the station." you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian the very letters. But what is this written above them?' "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, appeared upon the scene." "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. swore that no one else had been in the front room during the surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "You horrify me!" the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by the side-table." the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a the roots. something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black "Of Friday, June 19th." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in just called myself is not exactly my own." And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. compunction about shooting them down." would apply.' the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. cup of tea. to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "Yes, at the mines." possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, first called your attention to the advertisement--how long had he that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." bled considerably." the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the "Why did you beat the pavement?" what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into the nursery. was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my "And you thought he was pulled back?" speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, future lives." much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant will he say when he returns?" a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and other lovers by making love himself."