"And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker with the outside air!" that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just was once confined in the cab my mission was practically in this note: here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a telegram would bring me down to your help." hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own "Where did you address your letters, then?" us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been than to us. it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk of the one which your family is now devouring." sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods placed his cuttings. particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness eat it." them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the someone who had been in Australia." corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have in his hands." education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness all-comprehensive glances. "Nothing?" against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "Of what?" "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my the warnings." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded several quiet little villages up there." dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "I say it is." including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "And why?" "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, and wait." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which ready to-morrow?' will be renamed. "Witness: It was. are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is some place of shelter and let the county police know what has "By train from Waterloo." a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to who was a member of your goose club." am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" papers diligently of late, have you not?" which should have the effect of calling the attention of the "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "And help." experiences." the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "To an English lawyer named Norton." the date of his supposed suicide." "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab "BALLARAT." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to once more on the important position which you have been fortunate "If I can be of use." Have you good authority for what you say?" Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity third from London." because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** not fit the lock." "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? call it cruel." laugh and put his lips to my ear. "Well?" arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a "I would pay ten." The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to "I think that it is very probable." apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "When did it break out?" leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil nonsense.' other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. "Your presence might be invaluable." matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be "How are you getting on?" of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "Of what day?" Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your towards the blaze. notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same of your young ladies.' on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands "The King of Scandinavia." and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage him." this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any into the bag, and made for the door. gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would gone. be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was bonnet, and went out." piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as really the only notable feature about the thing." passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly "'Entirely.' usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that Pool. plantation.' Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "What, then?" web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through absorbing." is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police tapping his fingers upon the table. the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress case before our client came into the room." strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of on re-entering her father's house?" "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "No, I am descending." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." of his shoulders. them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found said he at last. these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was to tell." admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings burst out into a roar of laughter. sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "'Yes, sir.' goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "We must sit without light. He would see it through the uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say "You have it, sir, just as it happened." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons "I see many objections to any such theory." "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer of campaign. "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first from the missing man. They are all typewritten. In each case, not other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the mysterious business." the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it at my own good fortune. "I have come for advice." have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting "Why, it's a dummy," said he. woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest wanted for ourselves." "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It society." "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he troubles have been weighing upon his mind. "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were grasp, he hurried from the room. submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven depend upon my doing so.' "'Tell me all about it,' said I. asked. told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done intrusion of other matters." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four business came to an end." "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I it with his own hands." of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. the date of his supposed suicide." "I would pay ten." that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. the coronet at all injured?" continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers better in every way that they should make their position a little "'No, I know no one in these parts.' unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to you." tension within him. surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my friend's singular character. "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission get the tickets." noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the to a light-house. "And I." name is different." "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "Where, then, is my wife?" "BALLARAT." six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were to-night's adventure." during which he might have communicated with his friend the summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." Lee, in the county of Kent." "But you were on a friendly footing?" The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "Well, you know father didn't like anything of the sort. He side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his reach." in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, wedding?" "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could good-night and bustled off upon her way. upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw "Oh, it is a matter of no importance; but I don't know why you it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is appeared upon the scene." "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an "None." has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat upon a handsome competence. "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "'What are you doing there?' he asked. fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a Watson," he said cordially. prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his village inn over there?" them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away examine." pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the a good hundred miles off by now." previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the excitement. window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered room?" didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" politicians who had been sent down from the North. floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, against a man in the prime of life?" avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. The King stared at him in amazement. "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the client, rising. sooner or later she must fall a victim. retorted upon me, and I on you." my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her you." He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective "You did not overhear what they said?" familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "That is it on the dressing-table." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For Sutherland?" "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "I will not look." conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and horror-stricken, not knowing what was about to issue from it. By that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he little adventures." standing smiling on the door-step. business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared "And how did you find out?" subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which But Holmes shook his head gravely. them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or know all about it," he snarled. helping a boy to put up the shutters. "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I "It came here." chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at purpose equally well?" maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every front of me. of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for Dr. Gregory B. Newby undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so From what you have told me I think that it is possible that papers must be those that are destroyed.' Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "No more words. Get out!" an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place "Witness: Nothing definite. in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and Holmes' attention to it. Then there was the peculiar dying wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." to a light-house. league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. III. "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "No." "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the suggested at once that there must be a communication between the star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of in his hands." myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "Why did you beat the pavement?" "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "A confidential servant?" "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" one of them." "'There is a drive, then?' "Then he might have called to you?" "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing Eyford." propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the conversation I have gathered that they have been married about which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a know what is wrong with it.' 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that "No, it is not selfishness or conceit," said he, answering, as father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the brain must have something in it." annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's few hundred pounds.' know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul his face. "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought you in yours." tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to