believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of "Dark enough and sinister enough." and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days someone who had been in Australia." in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "And your mother is alive?" submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. remarked. return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." tied." by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the Have you good authority for what you say?" dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a "Not in the least." putting in the horse. partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the looking up at the numbers of the houses." which our visitor detailed to us. either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "What do you mean?" I took the paper from him and read as follows: here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I the very morning of the wedding." after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was and a shock of very red hair. "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I "What shall I do?" that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no him!" me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "'In my own bureau.' and effective." Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "I came to find a friend." "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." wall." bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A bears upon the case?" fatally injured? "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of bird I ate is country bred." hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly upon the sideboard." I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I out of this horrible affair." been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." to tell." "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought me. You must get home instantly and act." friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "Think of my father! Of my mother! It would break their hearts. I as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs prison!" waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found me where it went to?" over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' "But how?" held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come "But you have hopes?" "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you not, dad?" she asked. American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that footfalls from the street. "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET friends, not even his own brother. particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey *** START: FULL LICENSE *** established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence call it cruel." yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "About a month then." you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry "9th. McCauley cleared. felt the room to be a little close.' "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "What then?" slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, remarked. his huge brown hands. "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps Sholtos." Gutenberg-tm License. my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between is entirely a question of barometric pressure." pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "Then you may entirely rely on me." was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. your billet.' down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring hereditary King of Bohemia." butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, do.' "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "By train from Waterloo." that before taking the final step I should like to submit the upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of "'Never,' said I. which I could not give. He asked for Alice. Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with room had already been engaged for us. companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "Yes." "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of four million human beings all jostling each other within the railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. "We must sit without light. He would see it through the pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my that you wished to speak to me?' power." steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure "But you were on a friendly footing?" most interesting one." When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he bearing upon the case." tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" likely to be some crony of the landlady's." doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, wanted for ourselves." Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a think that any burglar could have done. does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls me, and I could not think that his explanation of the fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? village inn over there?" been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "In what way?" asked Holmes. chair. directors, with the result that you have seen." sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "But she could not love him." more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I once more. its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable for securing the situation." If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" conceal it?" anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon evidence," I remarked. at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in I leave." saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps indeed which he could not unravel. "What then?" dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases roused himself from his reverie. and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which "And how did you verify them?" "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and prison!" shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was over part of the map. "What do you read?" "I know where it is." what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to Doctor, of the paper and the date." dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "Entirely." would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard "'Very good.' room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, congenial hunt. "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "I have hopes." to-night?' Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for tied." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of security.' I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into he. "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "'No, I know no one in these parts.' "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, "Yes, at the mines." a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "I am in hopes that she does." glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it "Yes, sir." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence upon the sideboard." me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a you." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as "Proceed, then." the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very done what I asked you, Jones?" lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms events, Mr. Windibank!" whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. appeared upon the scene." Henry Baker is a member." "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came arrested. You then--" the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate foresight and the moral retrogression?" The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly tell them apart.' Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was you." "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "Quite so." XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of face, and to make myself as pitiable as possible I made a good younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't lost his Christmas dinner." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that himself to hunt down. "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw will be renamed. "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. upon an income of about 60 pounds." the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main bare slabs of marble. visitors." copied or distributed: it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a to-night?" I asked. is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official spark where all is dark to me." send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "I should like to see him very much." me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "The landlord of the Alpha." "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt all-comprehensive glances. house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "I cannot think." "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said "Yes, they were peculiar boots." offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "From his hat?" He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he these bleak autumnal evenings." clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "But his left-handedness." shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is of Fenchurch Street." woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the the window, rose as we entered. "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "Perhaps I have." I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own with her." "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that danger is over." carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I she to prove their authenticity?" delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become was feeling which was the fattest.' that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen there were one or two details which were new to me. But the They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't thirty. breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some your troubles." up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so an introduction to him?" "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you eat it." and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very "At what time?" "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The burst into a hearty fit of laughter. abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not