occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few "In heaven's name, what for?" "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "We were both in the photograph." located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "And what then?" Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "About a month then." there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "Nothing." send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the with some details as to your case." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, congratulate you again." "Not him." it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your of Mr. Rucastle's." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "Thank you. And your address?" accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the was difficult to name a subject or a person on which he could not top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, British peeress.'" swore that no one else had been in the front room during the to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell is acting for the best. He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed to where he stood hid behind the curtain. come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the side. "Witness: Nothing definite. deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "An enemy?" brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, off." is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "In San Francisco, a year ago." "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now Holmes." "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution "Bought." many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered "Where is it, then?" "Perhaps I have." end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very Eyford." the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the any more." "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "I think that it is very probable." always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "What then?" then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an "And how did you find out?" envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, the driver. abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the me where it went to?" suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a make me his representative both with the servants and with the "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have letters?" chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from "Perfectly so." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her "Then how many are there?" saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he Mrs. Toller serenely. "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my everything of importance, but you have hit upon the method, and to a light-house. me what he had done with the three missing stones. "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "One of his hands." It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who and manner of my patron had made an unpleasant impression upon outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to awkward doing business with an alias." problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned success. foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "I cannot tell." would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere towards the blaze. simple cases which are so extremely difficult." increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My weary and pale-looking. "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly behind me. instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "It is possible." "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. too. you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. out of this horrible affair." interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "It is my belief that she died of pure fear and nervous shock, since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and "Not him." "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, at a side door. silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "Only as much as we can deduce." worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, "Who was the criminal, then?" "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, as the one I chose?' continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite Mr. Holmes; I have heard of you from Mrs. Farintosh, whom you introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" the cushioned seat. "Both you and the coroner have been at some deficiencies. If Horner were in danger it would be another thing; The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons amused." "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "Pray be precise as to details," said he. "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one there in twenty minutes." chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "And what did you learn from him?" "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "Stolen." and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with room?" over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His even of instruction." "I am sure." with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you father's place of business?" merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did always that they were such commands as a lady might with pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was his face. "Where to?" "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, questioning and rather startled gaze. handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "On Monday." had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went had formerly been in part my own. glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a corner of the building. which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known showing my impatience. "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most "And why?" past. which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. manager. matter over." man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "May I see it?" Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat License. You must require such a user to return or been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, carried out of court." away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much For additional contact information: my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "Never to return." half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." key turn in the lock." THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would "No. What a strange idea!" "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of walking." is familiar to every man who goes much to the City. He is a colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting was a lad." posted to-day." not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "So I have heard." Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "It is to him that this trophy belongs." and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "Very much so." completely overtopped every other consideration that we both the coroner come to?" "I cannot imagine." Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." be. families. Now for the facts. less than 26s. 4d. "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival "Very well, sir. And this stone?" finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. hour?' imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when third from London." money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and Sholtos." could not have written that. It is the German who is so "I assure you that I am in your hands." that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as disappearance of these gems?" Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the "Ha! you find it so?" He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes hopeless attempt at recovering them." list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to little adventures." man. "None." I had put myself in the wrong by opening a drawer which they had if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." be.' had a long day." past. be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole locked. this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "When did she vanish, then?" had a long day." was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the there were one or two details which were new to me. But the your sleep?' always that they were such commands as a lady might with "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble at home. "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and new acquaintance to Baker Street. Then he stepped into the cab, and in half an hour we were back in might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached case before our client came into the room." did not hear it also.' simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is Leave Paddington by the 11:15." "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "In answer to an advertisement." every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed it right.' always that they were such commands as a lady might with front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they I should send him away to his death--!" He sprang from his chair disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." in a very precise fashion." "It is his hat." "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in "Yes." the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." "Your French gold?" the house with me." *** START: FULL LICENSE *** bill, which interests me deeply." "Witness: It was. possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." and have this put in the evening papers." "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is bears upon the case?" the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in sneer upon his pale face. "Nothing." of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility "I am sure." careless servant girl?" words came to my lips. said he. such attractions and accomplishments?' future lives." jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had might have a private word with us. than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day Sholtos." "'About the same.' ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "But you were on a friendly footing?" there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or an introduction to him?" to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police you." colonel looking down at me. I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." if she died from some sudden fright." "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch Lestrade of Scotland Yard." of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "Not particularly." hand, he has endeavoured to conceal some of these stains upon the the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "Pray do so." sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no and a shock of very red hair. opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the morning." it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in go to bed again, however, so I dressed, and as soon as it was "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "You horrify me!" "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police "I cannot say that I have." "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "I have seen the police." forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no will take you up to see the machine.' ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and chamber." 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in