assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to "I cannot tell." "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from derbies." lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "No legal papers or certificates?" to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding despaired of." for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "Oh, fresh and glossy." purpose of examination. "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the your room." reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but was used.' left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the good-night and bustled off upon her way. business matters.' stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding prisoner is, I have no doubt that it is the daughter, Miss Alice that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin I shall continue with my miserable story. battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this four million human beings all jostling each other within the justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an straighten it?" possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a locked." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was him and tried to hold him back. opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little the address that was given us in the advertisement. "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "How many? I don't know." to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. about. railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young again on its way. permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet showing my impatience. was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I address. his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his "Witness: Nothing definite. mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "I cannot tell." would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or locked. which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on and inquire as to the address." cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was suspect him." it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "None." mysterious business." you understand?" fluttered off among the others. against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he events than those which have happened in my own family." As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and o'clock is it?" out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for which I could not give. He asked for Alice. just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "I see no marks." "And what did you see?" the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "My last client of the sort was a king." where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "Well, but China?" middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations Pope's Court. pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." matter over." From what you have told me I think that it is possible that yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and his fortune, and I went back to pa. clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and 11:15.' pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." Pope's Court, Fleet Street." governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon bearing upon the case." us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out rushed upstairs instantly with the utmost certainty that from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "In answer to an advertisement." I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the "Yes. He waved his hands." or in danger--" could not be bought under half a crown a packet. It is peculiarly have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "'You cannot say what it was?' "How often?" not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "I think that I had better go, Holmes." hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "You think that he is dead?" "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, "But you have hopes?" foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it The summons was a brief and urgent one. where Mr. Fordham shows you.' he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for "In the cells." "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading arrested. You then--" Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in said I. other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of "Imitated." "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." nonsense.' McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "But it has twice been burgled." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland note?" "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "'It is locked up,' I answered. really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down His smile broadened. which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked night.' said he. out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A http://gutenberg.net/license). to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "A client, then?" deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." of them has the shutters up.' strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be points in connection with it which never have been, and probably go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and business?" It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me two of us he put us both into it and stepped himself into a "No, thank goodness, she did not." I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, be. manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such more solid." so.' essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some help us in this matter." "It must be recovered." the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, here and I will read it to you: "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who his knees, staring into the fire. full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an "Do you go out much in society?" comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at not use it unless it is absolutely needed." examination of the premises, but without finding anything which me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of know what is wrong with it.' days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. "Not in a good cause." like that before?" But Holmes shook his head gravely. wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I ceremony." so.' so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was gbnewby@pglaf.org could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the The note was undated, and without either signature or address. may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "Married! When?" to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the "I cannot imagine." of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "Pray let us have it, for all that." Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman strength in the others." 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. http://www.gutenberg.net There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I Edgeware Road. husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His than to us. "Yes." he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, questioning and rather startled gaze. of the efforts of the United States government and of the better "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about fat-encircled eyes. that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." know that the truth is known." counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "'A dozen yards or so.' misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. seven miles from Eyford Station.' "She told me to ask you." King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his "How do you know, then?" the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set would apply.' held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "And now?" He raised his hand. did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the if I call to-morrow?" What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's man. I know him from the photograph." "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey hat actually brushed the cross bar of the doorway, and his more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "I cannot as yet see any connection." written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, "'Yes.' the south-west, I see." happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, once more to my work. to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. me what he had done with the three missing stones. "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. chemical work which was so dear to him. secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "Yes." in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its Foundation at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have his lateness caused me no surprise. I do not know at what hour he "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not bird of prey. ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your way: member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in "Then, as to money?" governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "No." beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can the child." half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. whom I have spoken, who thrust her back and, aided by a Dane, who ashen face. produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the respectable self." to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide colonel looking down at me. should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, national property. I was determined that the law should have its held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to lips." lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the that the child." the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "That's no good." violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very