look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "10th. John Swain cleared. wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce "But she will refuse." swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I the King without delay." total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this "He said too much." essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. Count Von Kramm." glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been had formerly been in part my own. the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the door?" idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "And you can do nothing until then?" very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of disturbance in my wife." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email spark where all is dark to me." "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. see a sister of mine apply for." have I gained?" departure, to the effect that a small parcel of considerable latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent nothing with him." a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle I approached. "It was an hour's good drive." with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at completely overtopped every other consideration that we both "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. where we are going." myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster sound at heart." Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander call it. It's the big white one over yonder. There's twenty-six "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her door?" Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came where she found matters as described by the last witness. hurried by. she used." them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to arms and began to sob in a high treble key. hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "No, finished." pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day questionable one." the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. which should have the effect of calling the attention of the like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this someone who had been in Australia." "That is not always so easy." brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew house for five minutes.' against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' wife's character?" signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other bedroom door." lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "I fear not." with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "To an English lawyer named Norton." forecastle of an emigrant ship. Countess of Morcar's?" liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest stepfather?" There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "And your mother is alive?" 'I should be able to look after that for you.' with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly "Game for a morning drive?" as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly closed to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the standing smiling on the door-step. enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you of fine shops and stately business premises that they really finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "Of Friday, June 19th." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the suggested at once that there must be a communication between the "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the as noiselessly as she had come. Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "'What are you doing there?' he asked. Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "Well." as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK back alive. and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done legal crime." what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. wedding?" door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and peculiar to him. brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and "What then?" rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got here and I will read it to you: "'What do you call purely nominal?' "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "Yes." "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "Why? What do you mean?" fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "'Quite sure, dad.' examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole and put his glass in his pocket. coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." six. Come in!" suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism "Not social, then?" cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I "What?" note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was have had none more fantastic than this." to-night." Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it pierced for earrings?" desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these were worn through at the right forefinger. Her boots I didn't another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than him!" company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt that before taking the final step I should like to submit the send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself not, dad?" she asked. begun to whiten, even as mine has." signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon would apply.' There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than populous neighbourhood." forebodings. outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a say, farther up the path than is necessary to reach the door?" though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows things are very often connected not with the larger but with the figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my bedroom door." "Come in!" said Holmes. "Yes, it would be as well." "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the breakfast and whispered something to her husband. daring than any effort of the imagination." bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. hair?' wanted for ourselves." habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think hour?' shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, woman." the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the chemical work which was so dear to him. absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he locked. "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I he died? to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day absolutely follow my advice in every respect." "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull opened the door, and slipped through. bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with charged with?" I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "What's in here?" he asked, tapping the safe. "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as "Murdered?" upon the sideboard." to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "Certainly." In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the lectures into a series of tales." compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon touch that coronet?' was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "Quite so. She has her freedom." "And now?" He raised his hand. pierced for earrings?" loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began in my life." "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond business?" elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "But his lameness?" "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police child?' lamp. abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he within hail.' "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. emerged. slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some fish-monger and a tide-waiter." gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," "I was sure that I might rely on you." "About a month then." by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he gentleman's clothes. upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our breakfast and whispered something to her husband. success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. 1.E.9. mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "In which, sir?" "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to woman." separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon second window is the one that I jumped from." paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, relief. married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I go from here to the Strand." and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the "'Entirely.' which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. have I gained?" have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "He might." "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a "Your presence might be invaluable." The summons was a brief and urgent one. natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a rose-bushes. maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you "My dear Holmes!" neither fascinating nor artistic." "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, skylight. and I soon had a pretty good plan of the whole house in my head. "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a the Friday. Was it to be in church?" tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. relation between them, and what the object of his repeated "It certainly sounds feasible." which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the sufficient punishment." for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he certainly not very gracious." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, who was a member of your goose club." "Proceed, then." the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "VIOLET HUNTER." "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' fled together." "I don't say that. Perhaps." take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out whatever might befall. the tragedy. Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" "I am in hopes that she does." correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained power." and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "Pray let us have it, for all that." should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried and shall probably return to London by the evening train." I was concerned in it." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." said he. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's outbursts which come upon a strong nature when some great crisis the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "So I have heard." "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the and looked back. 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched through." Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to tell him that I know him to be innocent." "'Stolen!' he cried. "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had was used.' conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but very peculiar words of the dying woman?" and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot woman." there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. room?" man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. 11:15.' "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that