to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded the driver. roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "'Yes, sir.' "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after was not a bird to be seen there. week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to the coronet at all injured?" say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of swore that no one else had been in the front room during the astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in business at Coburg Square is serious." assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to our word." "Yes, that is the Crown." "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "To an English lawyer named Norton." them?" "I shall be delighted." "No, distinctly professional." vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "Ah!" in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "Holmes, the busybody!" anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." Surrey." smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole believe that I should never have any practice at all. in the port of London." devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope it were putty." have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "You have a clue?" "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." him!" the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so "Certainly." that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would families. Now for the facts. it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "He is still with you, I presume?" "I have a cab outside." detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, will he say when he returns?" This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a quite distinctive." "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said and put his glass in his pocket. I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it should be taken.' come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in train from Paddington which would bring you there at about "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "And the cigar-holder?" will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled trying to your nerves." when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than in my life." analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. "You will excuse my calling so late," she began, and then, "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I conversation I have gathered that they have been married about followed. that?' suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback States. the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "You have compromised yourself seriously." confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you the south-west, I see." sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I drove away. collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are matter." was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." shall not find me ungrateful." your room." home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow other lovers by making love himself." "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. later, upon the night of May 2nd." remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes the tragedy. "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, right! Sit down and let us talk it over." the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES enter into my head. to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her are, I think, all that we need." awkward doing business with an alias." "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "Certainly." gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I such person." passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the investigation." home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot go--none." returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third way in." Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I chair. clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "It is true that I have been generally successful." Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "I came to find a friend." baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to breakfast." same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me awkward doing business with an alias." Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' "And when will you call?" electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "Not I." "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "What will you say?" Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the John Swain, of St. Augustine. profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, get her out of the way." attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue sit on the left-hand side of the driver." Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "Yes, it was twisted." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little neither fascinating nor artistic." object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope promised to bring home. emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" gone. of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and your troubles." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. some terrible trap for her." of a light. you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding delirious. was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped awkward doing business with an alias." "It is solved." from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white "That is also quite modern," said the lady. shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and which it had come upon my father." saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I to affect your life." directors have had misgivings upon the subject." A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is "But not more so than I to find you." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room nothing with him." have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come papers." this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And yet." memory. there has been an enclosure here!" James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the stepfather?" he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." One day, however, as I ascended the stair, I met Mr. Rucastle the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "No, distinctly professional." which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen nothing with him." If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed he, 'and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable. The calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 did not hear it also.' a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours What do you deduce from it?" closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the during the last few years, and there are many noble families to a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a business." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must nonsense.' town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such fishes. "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from which was all perfectly true. "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side matter." struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country experiences." she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." "I will, Miss Turner." waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch down from London to inquire more deeply into it." rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. tied." to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, call for it in person on Monday morning.' endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "Yes." face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. out of this horrible affair." and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of front of the hall door has given its name to the place. I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a "I have a cab outside." it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My wanted for ourselves." "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" had no one to advise her at such a crisis." go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "Pray do so." may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "'Certainly not. But why?' at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. third from London." lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "I fear not." destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he works. See paragraph 1.E below. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "I promise," said Holmes. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back least a fellow-countryman. "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself "By all means." "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "'Then let me do so?' "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "Do you know him?" "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one arrived. I inquired of him whether he had ever heard of Colonel the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "Not in a good cause." and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, know that the truth is known." Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "I will try. What is it?" "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "We have tried and failed." might help us?" of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very remarked. "Yes." handed it to him. The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this "I will, Miss Turner." records." on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to have I gained?" during which he might have communicated with his friend the Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an his eyes and forehead. send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found charged with?" "'Not at all. I only doubt--' tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are me what he had done with the three missing stones. "Oh, yes, easily." all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official