matter." me have 200 pounds?' the afternoon. We rattled through an endless labyrinth of gas-lit incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to I approached. workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and Again Holmes raved in the air. him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "My last client of the sort was a king." away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. noise which awoke you from your sleep?" unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent "On the contrary, this is the right side." "And on what day did he meet his death?" relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held floor. tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the "And how have you succeeded?" not interfere, come what may. You understand?" it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the developed." re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works asked with his eyes open. foresight and the moral retrogression?" Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key to tackle the facts." business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by tell them apart.' reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and bed dies. Does not that strike you?" presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he points to suicide?" "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked and vouching for things of which I knew nothing, and generally "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "Tired-looking or fresh?" conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was absolutely follow my advice in every respect." boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the "What do you mean?" which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of are windows in it, of course?" without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and "'What do you call purely nominal?' visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is into the bag, and made for the door. "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "Dirty?" of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "'I have already given you my word.' broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means she might be summoned. "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the Watson," he said cordially. was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a speckled band?" "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be the nursery. "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "'Most admirably.' then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to matter." exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "No, thank goodness, she did not." "In the cells." however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, distance from the station, and there we found the young lady back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning was it brought him the coronet? confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., "But I am all in the dark." any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from opened the door, and slipped through. Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "Then you may be so with me." "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your in one or two places in England?' of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw "Pray continue your narrative." to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." speckled band?" eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." As he spoke there was a tap at the door, and the boy in buttons quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "But his left-handedness." more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that man. had no one to advise her at such a crisis." their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client who was a member of your goose club." 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up held up the lantern and gazed about him. daring than any effort of the imagination." "Well, it is a possible supposition." and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. "I cannot say that I have." whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of his eyes. "I trust that I am not intruding. I fear that I have Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My if I call to-morrow?" thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "I was afraid that you were engaged." hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it you." I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and cigars in the box." fishes. particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are and prosperity to your house. Good-night." and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, things are very often connected not with the larger but with the pictures, libraries, or plate. points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it row." previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The and I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, which lay upon the table and tore the lid from it. Out there fell the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son disappearance of these gems?" Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger only touch the interest." opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a to surprise her." Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless cost them two and thirty pounds." granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too can do in the town what the law cannot accomplish. There is no "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its certainly do as you advise." "'Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The conduct the inquiry." photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded "'I am sure if I had known--' most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that interested in these little problems, and since you are good of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for gone. practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "Indeed! Whose, then?" "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was very morning of my second wedding." "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried "To an end?" a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. You can understand that this register and diary may implicate what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce go from here to the Strand." hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, "If so, much may have happened between." keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "'In my own bureau.' glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which to have that photograph." "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the kindly on the shoulder. "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey fasten all the windows?" to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "Very likely not. However that may be, the young lady was very could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "Witness: Nothing definite. impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt "Yesterday." white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to empty. was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." not within a twentieth part of the market price." for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now You want to know what became of those geese?" evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. him nearly every evening." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial present strange and interesting features that it is no easy the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may to a more successful conclusion." in this way: we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I thin legs towards the fire. and, finally, where a few drops of blood had fallen, to show me noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "I thought people would talk if I went to the Hall." season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk over with notes and figures. There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. "Could he throw no light?" with her." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the "Eh? What was that?" therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, skylight. to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now sake, don't!" told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done "And I." with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with grizzled brown. A touch of red in nose and cheeks, with a slight found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation to where he stood hid behind the curtain. that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the promised to bring home. explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" appointment with me for six o'clock?" Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came any." exactly what you advise." "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, as the one I chose?' ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and roused himself from his reverie. listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We "Won't it ring?" stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news the streets of the little town, finally returning to the hotel, the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything yards of it?' ventilator." age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself them, and came down just as you departed. tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the hour." at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after point in the dark hollow of his hand. you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he wheel, two guardsmen who were flirting with a nurse-girl, and over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with "It looks newer than the other things?" like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "I am sure." cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly never to learn it at all." Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness on in his house." from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be "I cannot tell." once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a