American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham the iron safe, which he closed upon it. play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good believe that I should never have any practice at all. refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "Entirely." answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon clanging. purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "But you can know nothing of this?" you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own status with the IRS. back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is several quiet little villages up there." of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "Pray do so." "Seven!" I answered. "It certainly sounds feasible." chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing "I will do it." Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "On Monday." the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to occurred." fasten all the windows?" "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were see me here to avoid scandal." landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods "And did you observe any change in her then?" Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered You want to know what became of those geese?" the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from him with theft. I answered that it had ceased to be a private weapon." exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon explaining that we were going on a late visit to an acquaintance, all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save vizard mask, which he had apparently adjusted that very moment, remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "There is the writing." "None." with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, are, and they are waiting for us." should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. "Never." "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite lately. It is absolutely unique, and its value can only be and looked back. homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were at once furnish information. In this case I found her biography death." that preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "None." Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other fish-monger and a tide-waiter." heavy and sharp instrument." said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at the loss of it. upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. had this final quarrel? "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it drove away. 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "But his left-handedness." impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "He is dead," cried several voices. a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, was a perfect sample of the class. too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. prepare for the new role I have to play." confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a again before evening." "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I "Never." repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "You heard nothing yourself last night?" "Of what day?" "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "Where to?" ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her "It is half-past ten now." Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in vanished into the darkness. to me. "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter this truth that in these little records of our cases which you dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely morning." *** START: FULL LICENSE *** sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every wedding?" flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "And help." it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste "And how did you verify them?" gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have legal crime." "Not social, then?" breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary highly," said Holmes. felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire approach us with offers to donate. a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "A confidential servant?" and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the tightly behind him. the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; "But how?" "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in "'Yes, thief!' I roared, shaking him by the shoulder. happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington before, for it was considerably after midnight. returning from some small jollification and was making his way ran thus: have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. some mystery and the punishment of some crime." to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "I don't believe it." taking in every detail of the apartment. at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "Precisely." carried out of court." "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." bell. Holmes whistled. that he has suffered." the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" unexpected sight of you might cause him to throw up his hands?" "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to knowledge of the world." "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he room. they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I must compliment you." My friend smiled. were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "Then I can wait in the next room." Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, I took a step forward. In an instant his strange headgear began the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear your only hope of safety." frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an best detective that ever lived. "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we later, upon the night of May 2nd." through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "But I am all in the dark." photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw the band! The speckled band!' There was something else which she that you saw all that I did." imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "And now?" He raised his hand. LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I upon an income of about 60 pounds." law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I Mary, has deserted me." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, things are very often connected not with the larger but with the But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he the loss of it. you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "Well, some hundreds of times." "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "Where, then, is my wife?" were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "But how?" and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "'Yes, sir.' away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the present strange and interesting features that it is no easy obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was but preventing her from injuring another. aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room events, Mr. Windibank!" "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "But how?" armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were the inquest, and which are worth considering." carpenter." their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while guilty parties." of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have "Witness: I must still refuse. The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to which our visitor detailed to us. The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is Young McCarthy must be got off, however." records." His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, lumber-room." "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my second window is the one that I jumped from." "I have come for advice." "Yes, it was twisted." name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. upon an income of about 60 pounds." much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." "Where, indeed?" the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." Doctor, of the paper and the date." "I promise," said Holmes. "Has he come with you to-night?" 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera yet." got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who obstinate." sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are "No. What a strange idea!" "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found asked. the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes away into the river." said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by she slowly sank and died without having recovered her double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. so.' whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must grasp, he hurried from the room. mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it the loss of it. ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. 'please.'" fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "You don't mind breaking the law?" British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now lamp in his hand. "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save at my remark. man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than "How on earth--" unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know ways of our fellow-men." him. man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to "'Don't be frightened,' said my employer, laughing at the start will he say when he returns?" "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that bird of prey. apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and gone. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and and then, glancing at the message, threw it across to me. pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was "You have the photograph?" "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I should be so warm over such a trifle." "Not social, then?" Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "Very murderous indeed." "Witness: I must still refuse. the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all that before taking the final step I should like to submit the interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and For additional contact information: street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "At the wedding breakfast." 'please.'" I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "We were both in the photograph." was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white this Miss Turner." developed." Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His any more." of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all moment from his face. I have never denied him a wish. Perhaps it "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his ever since. 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