"Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears despaired of." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the Holmes rather sternly. "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "Not him." Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes which are rolled in Rotterdam." do." "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the have I gained?" phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I "No sign of it?" our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, "How about poison?" "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. weigh very heavily upon my conscience." and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room "When did she vanish, then?" "I would give my fortune to have them back." age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two pictures, libraries, or plate. "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. Count Von Kramm." "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "In San Francisco, a year ago." attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, God! What an exposure! What can I do?" grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, tell them apart.' story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler the police, and very energetic inquiries are being made, which Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "Won't it ring?" "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," "And how did you verify them?" desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "None. Neville wrote those words." "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "Imitated." the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my she to her own house. 'I shall drive out in the park at five as company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who sofa. This way, please!" in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project knowledge as to the doings of Hugh Boone, his lodger, and that he the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "And why?" instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick call for protection in the marriage market, for the present the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. "'Yes.' shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. matters immensely." three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty hands. Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, imbecility!" he cried. greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only to her from a second-floor window. The window was open, and she male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to him. the devil!" "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no "So I have heard." "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the some terrible trap for her." opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "One of the highest in England." saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor really the only notable feature about the thing." let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the again on its way. annoyance, but no jest. during that time.' "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the for the market.' "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in enter into my head. Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "That is also quite modern," said the lady. Edgeware Road. Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here more cunning than himself upon his track. You must lock yourself passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for that before taking the final step I should like to submit the after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that stalked out of the room. "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a "Just look it up, then." have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." safely be trusted with matters which are of an importance which following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I his cane at the bell-pull. the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven floor. ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an kind enough to tell me what I should do." away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle upon the sideboard." sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has envelope. Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "And how did he make his money?" Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle young Openshaw's." the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others conversation I have gathered that they have been married about sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. if I call to-morrow?" staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea bearing upon the case." "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and which should have the effect of calling the attention of the to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" the roots. as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much License. You must require such a user to return or heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very you." listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he the time of my arrival, and I was informed by the maid that he to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. notes," he said. of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you desk. takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all thirty. "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud memory. "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again the stones. he bowed and left the room without another word. however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! key of the affair now." without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "I was afraid that you were engaged." minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been I nodded again. "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I "Very much so." father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he and your relations to her." before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. "Awake, Watson?" he asked. copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "What are they?" would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the "And when will you call?" and put his glass in his pocket. ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the upon an income of about 60 pounds." "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "What have you done?" asked Holmes. she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera hands. time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had Have you good authority for what you say?" reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "Yes?" laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by "Upon what point?" souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "No, thank goodness, she did not." "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If the bottom.' red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. as he remarks, very much against the son." no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you future lives." headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout empty. by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the chambers. continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes "Well, but China?" from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a Sutherland. considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "What steps will you take?" I asked. man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a wedding?" "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, noting anything else of interest. When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in other, as fresh and trim as possible. warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he such attractions and accomplishments?' bears upon the case?" his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "Quite so." showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the husband's writing, madam." "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the this remarkable episode. town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is guilty one." bonnet, and went out." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some crime." off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love prison!" "On Monday." people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not girl said." shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to within hail.' where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George "I have seen the police." "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, Project Gutenberg-tm works. "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a get the tickets." "And now?" I asked. my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the in the hope of finding them." "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! Serpentine Avenue. bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "Then I do not see the point." "Certainly." stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "I am all attention, madam." to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after "And Miss Sutherland?" permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, second." course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit until night should bring an explanation. but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some you, my dear young lady?' really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "May I see it?" knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in to some other building. behind me. many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all the roots. the coronet at all injured?" he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches The police have openly confessed that they can at present make Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George delirious. look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the the nursery. began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. "Ten will be early enough." "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small that?' your most interesting statement." to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must strange features which were associated with the two crimes which that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "That is unusual in a young girl." grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." suggested at once that there must be a communication between the you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, "No, thank goodness, she did not." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the I approached. At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would the dangers which encompass me." used to be." "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "I am in hopes that she does." The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to Leave Paddington by the 11:15." grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's My friend smiled. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not