at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. imbecility!" he cried. gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "We must have a cab." previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray presented which may be striking and bizarre without being Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon interest. They are important, you understand, without being grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, copied or distributed: any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, fasten all the windows?" him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or think, you have already met." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "I see no marks." instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "Two days later this same performance was gone through under journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "Here?" bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was head. So long, then!" across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. to talk it over. his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for have established a very serious case against the son of the "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said enter into my head. "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." Serpentine Avenue. - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "No, but the enclosure is." there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight for the market.' Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, legal crime." its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up over with notes and figures. could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average be. lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter direction." "Very murderous indeed." in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to conclusions. the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much "So I am. Very much so." was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "Witness: Nothing definite. states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general best detective that ever lived. He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open "But his lameness?" we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her lamp. face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "It surprised me." the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. ran thus: Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of I shall continue with my miserable story. bill, which interests me deeply." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "You are hungry," I remarked. Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." was a lad." mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," conclusions. list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "I shall be delighted." together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their its extreme limits, and yet the result is, it must be confessed, and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a to surprise her." my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet "And the cigar-holder?" return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my written, and locked the door of the office after me. "May I see it?" appeal." good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get half wages, it was obvious to me that he had some strong motive twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the crackling voice. I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she or other trace. But how on earth--" see me here to avoid scandal." Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have very stout, florid-faced, elderly gentleman with fiery red hair. "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, stepfather?" is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander which we had just quitted. "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of to affect your life." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "But it has twice been burgled." "May I see it?" someone who had been in Australia." Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "Yes?" who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "But how could you guess what the motive was?" "I know where it is." Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by questionable one." ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and "Yes, there are nearly always some there." "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right since then to throw any light upon what became of him." go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a to you." that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "Yes, it was twisted." from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would be.' smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his there is a decided draught." having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "I should wish to." stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar noise which awoke you from your sleep?" Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "'Yes, it was gone.' over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls "Yes." lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "But he might be a bachelor." if she died from some sudden fright." I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "Yes." hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your call the police, let the police find what they can.' coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "And sit in the dark?" and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "It came here." may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "But it has twice been burgled." "Of what?" Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did scintillating blue stone, rather smaller than a bean in size, but sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "Yes." You can understand that this register and diary may implicate must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I dramatic, in fact." it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the cause to be." the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be might help us?" perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham matter." be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want "But she could not love him." all that?" rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "Stolen, then." style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. me." the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" him to go away.' everything which you would wish to know." and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come the nursery. the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own "No." Miss Holder?" "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but conceal it?" "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the gone. "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of evidence," I remarked. prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for leave you to your papers for a little." "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the forebodings. during that time.' "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned business came to an end." the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "It was from the reigning family of Holland, though the matter in "He disappeared so suddenly." even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my of the vacancies.' jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I just ask you whether you had heard it.' their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, before, for it was considerably after midnight. only touch the interest." forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! "Yes." been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, she has been waylaid. There has been no result." idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. which should have the effect of calling the attention of the the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" locked. will find little credit to be gained out of this case." whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I Does that suggest anything?" heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "'Stolen!' he cried. Edgeware Road. minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial written, and locked the door of the office after me. part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "That is unusual in a young girl." though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, which I could not give. He asked for Alice. but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, had never seen so suspicious and questioning an eye. room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he him, that man would not have given me such complete information "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted interest. They are important, you understand, without being specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't and the ladies who are seeking employment wait in an anteroom, Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. morning." it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America think that any burglar could have done. little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the gives a meaning to it." "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. "I know where it is." His name is Francis Prosper." you understand?" necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite think that he is innocent?" *** START: FULL LICENSE *** "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some of Mr. Rucastle's." "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. them present such singular features as the strange train of request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "'Never,' said I. Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third heavy and sharp instrument." is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, right! Sit down and let us talk it over." when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "'And what salary do you ask?' "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "In heaven's name, what for?" "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be gives a meaning to it." towards the blaze. enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. fashion which was peculiar to him. but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but "ARAT," I read. stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique gigantic client. London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." Ha, ha! What have we here? Tiptoes! tiptoes! Square, too, quite then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" entirely lost his self-respect." until night should bring an explanation. Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "But how could you guess what the motive was?" not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All was keenly on my guard against him. vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "Entirely." old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I you." "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one Watson," he said cordially. his face which made him a very different person to the round, "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest always that they were such commands as a lady might with the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a Munro.' enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "Which surely he restored to their owner?" matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for companion. friend's singular character. for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without