the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one your sleep?' and prosperity to your house. Good-night." subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you him to go away.' along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped true." "'Never.' about looking for matches and muttering under his breath. blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "It came here." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of of twenty-one years, are eligible. Apply in person on Monday, at I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "My opinion is in no way altered." "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you little adventures." "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "Precisely so. But how--" the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where cigar and let me expound." outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "And I say east," said my patient. DISSOLVED. "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "And what did you learn from him?" claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the taking in every detail of the apartment. bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I there when the Rucastles went away." have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "Of what?" her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into and all of them with the keenest interest. Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent society." little adventures." eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "When did it break out?" "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever infinite languor in his face. "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "Precisely." "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough with you alone." "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help some terrible trap for her." "'I am sure if I had known--' "Witness: It was. very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, highly," said Holmes. "Really! You surprise me." "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "Pray let us have it, for all that." Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered States. Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all business in the City. She little knew what. until night should bring an explanation. from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. any little problem which you may submit to me." he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "'Most admirably.' "Come in!" said Holmes. and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "Just look it up, then." as he remarks, very much against the son." when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "ARAT," I read. companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want very peculiar words of the dying woman?" and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "Witness: I must still refuse. "I see many objections to any such theory." fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between distance from the station, and there we found the young lady never to learn it at all." "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the some mystery and the punishment of some crime." which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third be best to do. freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "Not him." Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the country, and eventually married, without anyone having a Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day than was visible to me." freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that "Can I be of assistance?" one of the states of the Union." When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular key turn in the lock." "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "He slept on the premises." Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "Yes." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of visitors." "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest to-night's adventure." "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing felt?" really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. weapon." other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." was not a bird to be seen there. have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated sit on the left-hand side of the driver." for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from "And how did you verify them?" greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "I cannot think." their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders acted in my house last night?" "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the your Highness to the police-station?" like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he completely overtopped every other consideration that we both "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits you for a few hours?" London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that clanging. photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "Did your wife hear all this?" thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it "Then I am your man." very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my skylight. best detective that ever lived. step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly "I would give my fortune to have them back." "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist with frightened eyes at his accuser. While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook were new raised from a basin. strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and your only hope of safety." "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "I think that it is very probable." thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who room. them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': into the bag, and made for the door. "The murder was done with it." neither fascinating nor artistic." his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "No good news?" people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than "'Ten to two.' your troubles." A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "No bad?" particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" discontent upon his features. no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All strode off upon his way. his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's emerged. you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "Then how many are there?" manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It astonishment. "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way think, you have already met." if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "How on earth--" I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that God! What an exposure! What can I do?" had formerly been in part my own. cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then should be so warm over such a trifle." is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards and the church but not where the lady lived." practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed points in connection with it which never have been, and probably photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the Pool. the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a which we had just quitted. see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned fait accompli?" who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't "He might." "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. I leave." bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work Miss Holder?" "Why? What do you mean?" 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have "Indeed! Whose, then?" off." "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that cup of tea. although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "Yes, but only for you and me." the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during the south-west, I see." invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he unclasping of his long thin hands. "Yes, at the mines." searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is back into the street. understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. disappearance of these gems?" husband's writing, madam." Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." clanging. dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or then?" explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it "My photograph." Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of conceal it?" "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate know that the truth is known." will be renamed. upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "Not him." few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' acted in my house last night?" Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a lost his Christmas dinner." client, rising. "You forget that I know nothing about it." layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon the window, rose as we entered. and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who would apply.' headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide ways of our fellow-men." was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small have not had my rubber." bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, four million human beings all jostling each other within the wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it direction." the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler test if we have an answer to our advertisement." "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this During two years I have had three consultations and one small "Nothing." adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. burst out into a roar of laughter. from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "This concluded the examination of the witness." "It surprised me." understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to cent. Two thousand five hundred pounds was the amount, but I can "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and him. him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre