description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "Is he quiet?" "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in impression behind it as though a window had gently closed new acquaintance to Baker Street. 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You gives a meaning to it." "I shall most certainly do so." quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "What I expected to see." that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying ceremony." manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "The Cedars?" "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "My dear Holmes!" "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "But how will you look?" "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at away to you." gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be "Yes, from Horsham." "At half-wages, in fact." quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the "Can I be of assistance?" out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the "It is his hat." down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of "I do." green of the new foliage. safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which "I fear not." was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent crime. room had already been engaged for us. "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "And I say east," said my patient. manager. and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural or other trace. But how on earth--" have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, joking. with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" might have a private word with us. low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or "How many? I don't know." "Certainly." mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' horse could go." "Perhaps we may make them less so." elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "I answered that I had not. you want, then?' undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who could not account in any way for the presence of the missing than to us. saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." "I am sure." cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "My photograph." crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As client, rising. bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." "No. What a strange idea!" The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "And when will you call?" for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I ways including including checks, online payments and credit card "No, finished." your Highness to the police-station?" "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, wedding?" I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, families. Now for the facts. the child." "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a is acting for the best. overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his meant." Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "Did you observe the colour?" "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "'In my own bureau.' hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, "No, I had a dozen." to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "I think that it is very probable." to tell." "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said "May I see it?" into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. my secret was safe in his possession. in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." money should be paid at once.' upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted evidence," I remarked. all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an "Very. But will he see it?" table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of your bag." sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, at my remark. Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before imbecility!" he cried. the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from business?" your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend as the one I chose?' better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the "'How far from the body?' ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet strength." opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that late." will take you up to see the machine.' the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under other means.' fled together." "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. III. little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, stammered. not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. as yours." "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "The doctor?" Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' "Dr. Becher's." dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie and have this put in the evening papers." central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. remarked. look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "He disappeared so suddenly." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." "Yes, it was twisted." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged them present such singular features as the strange train of "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite it were putty." work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an "It is no ordinary one." "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in way in." said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had papers on the sundial.'" me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I since then to throw any light upon what became of him." which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' if she died from some sudden fright." were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock gigantic client. "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what I shall communicate with you." takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as there." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "I am armed." manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as "What I expected to see." morning." We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other following enigmatical notices: from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. you?' that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "My private note-paper." a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was six. Come in!" coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son "It is very kind of you." LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all "That is not always so easy." have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "I guessed as much." believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. "What do you mean?" "What I expected to see." standing smiling on the door-step. furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "It is his hat." convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell jewels which you have stolen?' age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "What can you not understand?" his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" has guessed Miss Hunter's intentions and has carried his victim Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that sufficient punishment." my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new was a lad." and I shall be with you presently." and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full and shall probably return to London by the evening train." granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's any." crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, spark where all is dark to me." then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers you." at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of "But it has twice been burgled." is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "It is half-past ten now." the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the electronic works moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "'Yes, sir.' springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few "You did not overhear what they said?" interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" gone. compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up the general public were present, then?" "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the said he. behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our might help us?" the little opening for the ventilator is." his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' will he say when he returns?" "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should "Certainly." ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found astonishment. "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the "Yes." I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "And what did you see?" she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were "Was she in good spirits?" prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. would then never go into court at all." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. Sholtos." "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But "None." not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He at my own good fortune. with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a of the subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the together. a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to any more." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in "You will not go there first?" "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." "In San Francisco, a year ago." he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper "I say that I have solved it." back alive. will take you up to see the machine.' "It must be recovered." just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" foot. The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "Dirty?" been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "Last Monday I had finished for the day and was dressing in my matter over." the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took your own bird, so if you wish--" carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was "I don't believe it." gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he