am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little families. Now for the facts. street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, it." after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a in his power. "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I to his chemical studies. as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done within hail.' on in his house." number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at with some details as to your case." be there in time for your coming." to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he paper in the air. It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her populous neighbourhood." before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in "That sounds a little paradoxical." "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" and I shall be with you presently." chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that will not take me long to tell. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." his fortune, and I went back to pa. pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San you for a few hours?" down in his armchair and closing his eyes. the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "You did not overhear what they said?" objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his "Where, then?" "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "Yes, that is the Crown." closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the were unconscious?" of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic vague figure huddled up in the darkness. his knees, staring into the fire. companion quietly. He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite "I am sure." confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, you." Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the window when the police appeared." through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping once more. come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." the matter." could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said footfalls from the street. of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of "Yes, sir." Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his the bottom.' "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera experiences." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing upon a handsome competence. asked with his eyes open. If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the noble correspondent could be. "'You cannot say what it was?' Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry IS "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number highroad, where all traces were lost. wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution weary and pale-looking. your billet.' "Imitated." her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all lost nothing by them." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I "Tired-looking or fresh?" are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "On Monday." the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I point in the dark hollow of his hand. "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that too. the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until other, as fresh and trim as possible. License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "I cannot think." business at Coburg Square is serious." the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "Now, then, what's the last entry?" 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "I should be immensely obliged to you." retorted upon me, and I on you." have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "I promise," said Holmes. "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged did not hear it also.' little adventures." surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds to change my dress. base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we it." "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "Then he might have called to you?" unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he business in the City. She little knew what. cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up." tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up there when the Rucastles went away." few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I "Yes, sir." are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that "By no means." him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible look dissatisfied." "Nothing." always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "What will you say?" "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant the house with me." was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards hand, madam?" which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man rooms." with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men this truth that in these little records of our cases which you our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, will not take me long to tell. taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "To the police?" be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "No." last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "When did she vanish, then?" them, and came down just as you departed. left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had again, where I was soon asleep. It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, confronted him. behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "Yes, there are nearly always some there." home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, vague figure huddled up in the darkness. "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that And thus was solved the mystery of the sinister house with the the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own your most interesting statement." without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor green of the new foliage. into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "I say it is." interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the his knees, staring into the fire. well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I certainly not very gracious." "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. go back?" "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "To an English lawyer named Norton." province." transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but writing, and yet I know it well." "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. For additional contact information: But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study "Then I am your man." stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" depend upon your compliance." the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it Holmes." maiden herself was most instructive." the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "Then what has happened to him?" the coronet at all injured?" charge against him will break down." for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." country, and eventually married, without anyone having a cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "What shall I do?" "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "The Coroner: What do you mean? state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and "And that is--" unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in triumphant cloud from his cigarette. She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not "Stolen, then." rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' "And now?" He raised his hand. Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled him!" were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. prove useful, so I just ordered him to put up the shutters for people don't know." Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Of Friday, June 19th." unprecedented a position." step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, she has been waylaid. There has been no result." twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to passage and a tap at the door. gentleman's clothes. "In San Francisco, a year ago." "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. dream of going, Watson, for I very much prefer having a witness, that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey works. in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "Yes, they were peculiar boots." chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up "'I have already given you my word.' conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly "Did you observe the colour?" chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "In what way?" asked Holmes. difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. companion. creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, one's self under obligations.' Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the her also." broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, it were putty." peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every the Red-headed League." "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, extraordinary contortions. who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced now. It seems that there had been some informality about their attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us villagers almost as much as their master. certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say directors, with the result that you have seen." "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and to you." "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion than was visible to me." the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a during the last few years, and there are many noble families to "But your client--" weigh very heavily upon my conscience." called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his "'There is a drive, then?' matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "Not the Countess of Morcar's blue carbuncle!" I ejaculated. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my "4th. Hudson came. Same old platform. nonsense.' "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" too. and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut minor matters until to-morrow." in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible touch that coronet?' was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass least a most suspicious remark." his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to dramatic, in fact." "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I "Very well, sir. And this stone?" sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. "I think it very unlikely." snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "It is possible." charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United fear." seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped Munro.' the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that the room while you explain this matter?" wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the