"The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. "And how have you succeeded?" his face which made him a very different person to the round, to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," McCarthy." destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." must compliment you." endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a without success. At last the little money which I had saved began can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new from you?" "Absolutely none." "It surprised me." scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "I am armed." fluttered off among the others. too. his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, your troubles." "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the formed some opinion?" bill, which interests me deeply." "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your your only hope of safety." call it cruel." Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "Come in!" said Holmes. search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler assist you in forming an opinion." McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she one or two very singular points about this room. For example, States. and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "'Where could I find him?' your most interesting statement." read it out to me." from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short see me here to avoid scandal." past. which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "Witness: I must still refuse. case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is daring than any effort of the imagination." outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the Does that suggest anything?" and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he in a friendly supper." answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem several quiet little villages up there." quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his weapon." fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian have accepted such a situation. are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "BALLARAT." appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas towards the blaze. computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical "Yes, at the mines." covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this "Of what?" "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove "I should wish to." "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. conduct the inquiry." which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. emerged. animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who "'Why that?' I asks. so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, tassel actually lying upon the pillow. clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to once more to my work. All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other said he. "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come shall not find me ungrateful." "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very shoulder; "he's all right." "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." invisible to me," I remarked. the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all best detective that ever lived. some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you was a lad." process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and indeed which he could not unravel. "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and "But his left-handedness." what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "But how will you look?" to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman Serpentine Avenue. "'What are you doing there?' he asked. voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "And Miss Sutherland?" "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "Did your wife hear all this?" determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who with you?" his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "My own seal." this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, "Yes, I have one waiting." "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather unkempt, staring out at me. considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. II. fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." felt the room to be a little close.' have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her third from London." call the police, let the police find what they can.' As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when house for five minutes.' End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. of the one which your family is now devouring." "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold "I think that I had better go, Holmes." Holmes. he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not not personally threatened." whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the really the only notable feature about the thing." the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. will take you up to see the machine.' friend's singular character. "Pray let us have it, for all that." chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's http://www.gutenberg.net had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, "Then what has happened to him?" great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the astonishment. Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and question. "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom who was a member of your goose club." hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming bill, which interests me deeply." monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. call it cruel." clang of the bell. "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California cheerful." disappearance of the bride.'" concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the it? Did I buy the geese off you?" "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. means taking possession of that which another person has a prior "Where to?" "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have twenty before her father became a rich man. During that time she "But what is it you wish?" "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told "Well?" "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was returning from some small jollification and was making his way The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" death." makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from to go into your room and bar your shutters?" shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to o'clock is it?" considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of at a side door. upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "How did you trace it, then?" particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking death." "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one which it had come upon my father." "He said that you could solve anything." murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "You forget that I know nothing about it." pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. Where does the thing come from?' to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one went to the Alpha were town bred." scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "You will not go there first?" country, and eventually married, without anyone having a "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of said I. values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been "Is he quiet?" adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the papers must be those that are destroyed.' over part of the map. "What do you read?" to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free "Yesterday." 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it "On your arm?" arrangements." fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and had picked up in the wood. "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away was feeling which was the fattest.' good-night and bustled off upon her way. By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so opened a pocket-book and took out a note. of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "Very murderous indeed." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the behind me. held up the lantern and gazed about him. and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "When did it break out?" go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his "My dear Holmes!" on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and mystery may be cleared along those lines." details." building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my disappearance of these gems?" My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger point our research must commence, and we will begin it by round and wave him away like that.' little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to simple cases which are so extremely difficult." "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." voice. sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, "Not yet." justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and subject to the trademark license, especially commercial the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set and your relations to her." singular points about the case. What did the police think of the not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that interest. They are important, you understand, without being with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination remarked. middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two "It was." moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "Where to?" therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the William Crowder, a game-keeper in the employ of Mr. Turner. Both "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "That you are never beaten." providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of papers on the sundial.'" burst into a hearty fit of laughter. 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, someone who had been in Australia." "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple few hundred pounds.' with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such own family. method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was Farm upon the left." cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "Awake, Watson?" he asked. instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who "Is he quiet?" or other trace. But how on earth--" "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who been." my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! a comical pomposity of manner he bowed solemnly to both of us and such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney and I shall be with you presently." whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late!