paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love companion. Foundation minor matters until to-morrow." cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the "Which are?" As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power village inn over there?" "Do you know him?" having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked Sutherland. "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." "The best possible." "But the mystery?" "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "And who is her maid?" side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room place of silver." "My own seal." the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "Eh? What was that?" one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered arrested, and a verdict of 'wilful murder' having been returned signal between you and your father? him to be an active member of the medical profession." He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, "Eh? What was that?" "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a Countess of Morcar's?" assist you in forming an opinion." "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the Holmes rather sternly. "What is it?" slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the whole matter to your consideration." having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. again." that he has suffered." XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and question. Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of presented more singular features than that which was associated withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "Yes." The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me you came in." bled considerably." brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, "Of what day?" will be renamed. man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently if I call to-morrow?" empty. "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who "Ten will be early enough." sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "When did it break out?" Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. matter." observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of fuss that is made over them." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "I cannot think." October 9, 1890. ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The "Not him." chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "We have tried and failed." Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "I am sure." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action. I "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "This concluded the examination of the witness." Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, My friend smiled. conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly he followed me there, and he saw me without pa knowing anything he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the there were so many in the whole country as were brought together it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." grasp, he hurried from the room. the address that was given us in the advertisement. logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down "Mrs. St. Clair had fainted at the sight of the blood upon the "My dear Holmes!" fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "My stepfather's business papers." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "What! You do not mean bodies?" "Yes, the wine-cellar." still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the from the brougham. third from London." cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "That is also quite modern," said the lady. was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. bare slabs of marble. There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "So I heard. You have him here?" a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, was once confined in the cab my mission was practically photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I call it cruel." have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' have accepted such a situation. Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he like gravel from a pit.' of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. the driver. have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit lost his Christmas dinner." carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited hardly wander." month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." that there was nothing in it, after all." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's open." shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally manager. determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "Witness: It was. and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper views." "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which absorbing." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I "The knees of his trousers." "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his in the dead of the night?' And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear some water from a caraffe. more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached said he. police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the shadow pass over his face as I spoke. appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: to-night?" I asked. the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "We must sit without light. He would see it through the "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in rat could hardly pass through." direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have straighten it?" "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must present." all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no "What! You do not mean bodies?" have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter hard-headed British jury." baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in cheerful." would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "So I am. Very much so." reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "'Entirely.' that he has suffered." south, for the country is more deserted there." object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of "I will get her to show me." send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations happened." we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a "There are none." own family. Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and questioning and rather startled gaze. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for my former friend and companion. instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting crowd. and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other DAMAGE. William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "It looks newer than the other things?" the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. suddenly upon us." and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "And leave your case unfinished?" one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "I am sure." same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew correct than the official force." arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found that there was nothing in it, after all." himself to tell his story. already been minutely examined." the armchair which I pushed forward for him. being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black the tragedy. which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in "Can I be of assistance?" brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" it? Did I buy the geese off you?" a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of at a side door. little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to the matter?" mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in hopeless attempt at recovering them." relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the four million human beings all jostling each other within the who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet lamp in his hand. very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he instituted." this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. was not a bird to be seen there. America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by yet." has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon "Two days later this same performance was gone through under occupations.' her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so in one or two places in England?' call for protection in the marriage market, for the present "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was chamber." decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for was keenly on my guard against him. the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. wanted for ourselves." putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be the mornings. Besides, I knew that my assistant was a good man, "It certainly sounds feasible." My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "A confidential servant?" dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by it." flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "'A dozen yards or so.' no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout this remarkable episode. surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in the side-table." news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your existence." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of I am not easy in my mind about them." "Breckinridge is his name." fat-encircled eyes. through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "'Yes.' loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote right! Sit down and let us talk it over." girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. such person." without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence of a light. right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." fish-monger and a tide-waiter." may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the lids now and glanced across at his visitor. his grey eyes. is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. something of him before." hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name on re-entering her father's house?" furniture van. That is quite cleared up now--though, indeed, it "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the the coroner come to?" Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of been able to understand it, in a very few words. before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "At the wedding breakfast." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to people don't know." Street. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling whatever might befall. forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very could gather together that I was able to avert another public fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of Doctor, of the paper and the date." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "So it appears." "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he drove away. sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE father's young wife. "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not highroad, where all traces were lost. Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and conduct the inquiry." Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "One of the highest in England." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was she used." is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a