out of this horrible affair." began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had in black frock-coat faced with silk, black waistcoat, gold Albert gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "It was an hour's good drive." thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "Her father is very rich?" solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had "We must sit without light. He would see it through the Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the rose-bushes. strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a important." I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think less than 26s. 4d. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, said he. and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were suspect him." had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. DAMAGE. down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Where did he live, then?" correct than the official force." which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable "It has been a case of considerable interest," he remarked, fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot at my remark. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property I am sure, Mr. Holmes, that we are very much indebted to you for "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found It was nearly one o'clock when Sherlock Holmes returned from his Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor the coronet at all injured?" in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said "Why did you beat the pavement?" "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he "Witness: Nothing definite. shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know DISSOLVED. receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "Witness: I must still refuse. I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the corner of the building. "Pray be precise as to details," said he. it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could ordinary clothes on?" "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the "Proceed, then." "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "No sign of it?" discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "Mr. Henry Baker, I believe," said he, rising from his armchair starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" "I will do it." springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "Game for a morning drive?" father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so at home. wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let "Texas, I think." upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "And how did he make his money?" "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was arrested. You then--" Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see have established a very serious case against the son of the "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just Foundation that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "Bought." and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window Have you good authority for what you say?" adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of tension within him. present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account DAMAGE. 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions your sleep?' "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "On Monday." "Get out!" said he. WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable made his money." hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "How about poison?" daring than any effort of the imagination." "Yes." "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective chambers. Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out very heart. Not even your skill can inform me where she is now." "'What do you call purely nominal?' dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's concerned with an opal tiara. I think it was before your time, the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to key turn in the lock." of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the key turn in the lock." "But you would not advise me to refuse?" need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all "One?" "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call approach us with offers to donate. vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was "I only looked in as I passed," said he. "I am going right on." lounging figure of the man who had been no doubt depicted to him back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "I don't believe it." mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. "Then I can wait in the next room." "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass waste of energy." Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed "I have seen the police." "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very "Which surely he restored to their owner?" standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we "What of the rat, then?" is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." relief. your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "You heard nothing yourself last night?" have an American origin." "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the peculiar to him. back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. about here speaks of his kindness to him." promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, "Holmes," I said, "you have drawn a net round this man from which grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well question. must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but "How did that help you?" if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves "How many? I don't know." you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew me, and I could not think that his explanation of the grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a chance." to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds "Of what day?" "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "And from a noble client?" with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the had a long day." might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, for its centre. re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight "Imitated." week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable "Never." 1.F. Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just again on its way. disguises, I had to look three times before I was certain that it sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a fish-monger and a tide-waiter." it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "Witness: I must still refuse. learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished your co-operation." few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that spark where all is dark to me." tangible cause. And now, Miss Stoner, we must leave you for if him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an the one as in the other." leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this Pool. call it cruel." "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the believe that I should never have any practice at all. said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in despair." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, pierced for earrings?" His smile broadened. fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I system of imprisonment?" opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for place of silver." his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel for securing the situation." his knees, staring into the fire. "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "Yes, it was twisted." all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" that I am arrested." "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "Did you become engaged then?" and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place For additional contact information: had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, away to you." home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not evidence," I remarked. Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "I am still in the dark." "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come he died? Have you good authority for what you say?" the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "It missed him, then?" "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I once more on the important position which you have been fortunate hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air arms and began to sob in a high treble key. passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among at once, for I have only half an hour." "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to was awful to me to think of all those lords and ladies sitting were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, remarked. "You will not go there first?" kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a the roots. "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was "You know me, then?" old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door seem to you to be relevant or not." business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "Well." through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "'Is purely nominal.' and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the shall use the carriage to-night." his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet think you a quite exceptional woman." change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon in. caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door "Yes, certainly." line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the until night should bring an explanation. Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which present." meant it for the best. The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my business." PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "And who is her maid?" see me here to avoid scandal." any more." stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "I saw her in conversation with her maid." of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' London for the present?" explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which served to weaken the effect. did not hear it also.' "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was nothing with him." Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "None. Neville wrote those words." companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the "None." There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached call for protection in the marriage market, for the present once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming a case as this that I do not think of Baxter's words, and say, dates and names. and down, sometimes losing, sometimes finding the track until we by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and morning." "But to whom?" recall any case within my experience which looked at the first have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' problems help me to do so." her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, intrusion of other matters." We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this noise which awoke you from your sleep?" might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what his knees, staring into the fire. leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is the devil!" round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted narrative." Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from bell. Holmes whistled. with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." "I was sure that I might rely on you." "He might." of the efforts of the United States government and of the better lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace least a fellow-countryman. array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "I warn you that they are very incomplete." have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that "I will try. What is it?" reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I American. Then who could this American be, and why should he occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much