call the police, let the police find what they can.' "In which, sir?" awaited us upon the table. rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the would then never go into court at all." present strange and interesting features that it is no easy particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first the inner apartment." "To ruin me." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "Pray continue your narrative." at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the "I do." Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman of Mr. Rucastle's." focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "Well, it is a possible supposition." of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" examination of the premises, but without finding anything which accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's remarked. him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be works. came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. for the market.' dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his golden eyeglasses. "Oh, fresh and glossy." frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "Pooh, pooh! Forgery." "Of what day?" lamp in his hand. a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and behind me. said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "I was afraid that you were engaged." upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that "That was it, sir." "The Coroner: What do you mean? receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is delighted to hear it," he said. other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of the Red-headed League." terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to an introduction to him?" the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may "I have heard of you, Mr. Holmes. I heard from Major Prendergast Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." house for five minutes.' "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she during the last few years, and there are many noble families to outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in in command of one of the forts upon Portsdown Hill. I was glad other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in address. sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter if only as a check to my own memory." license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to or in danger--" The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' business at Coburg Square is serious." "I should wish to." corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "You think so, too?" with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. "I have solved it." are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to "Come in!" said Holmes. events than those which have happened in my own family." nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more writers could invent nothing more crude." "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to for and were ordered to this address. pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "But what is it you wish?" go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of directly by questioning you." Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were information in his hands the value of which he did not himself broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to not interfere, come what may. You understand?" on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable "Stoke Moran?" said he. bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "What then?" "What office?" exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to begun to whiten, even as mine has." "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of Sutherland. earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up "In what way?" asked Holmes. over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy simple cases which are so extremely difficult." and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the letters?" passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great "And sit in the dark?" a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "He said that you could solve anything." is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling your sleep?' course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something "It must be recovered." propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. suddenly upon us." "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own that threaten you." remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. used to be." main points of my analysis." conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, sound, not even the drawing of a breath, and yet I knew that my "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who of this gang." he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between doubt as to my conduct would bring the matter to an end." "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the will find little credit to be gained out of this case." mystery!" was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped go back?" gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "Bought." almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until him, that man would not have given me such complete information flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "Then what has happened to him?" himself. "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to was determined to preserve my disguise as long as possible, and sit on the left-hand side of the driver." it is no great deduction to say that she came away in a hurry." making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house Holmes rather sternly. new duties?' building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "Yes, at the mines." "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "You did not overhear what they said?" "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little made him keep the appointment." My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to go home with you. I wouldn't frighten Kate--poor little Kate. good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." information in his hands the value of which he did not himself Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. "'A dozen yards or so.' The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of "What! a murderous attack?" "How are you getting on?" crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very seen the man in the road." This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with Mrs. Toller serenely. do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, "Will you bet, then?" had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have affair. served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get an introduction to him?" did not hear it also.' you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would use an arc-and-compass breastpin." "And what did you learn from him?" He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, someone who had been in Australia." comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "My dear Holmes!" performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works behind me. questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common "And that is--" "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been his grey eyes. beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it noting anything else of interest. to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed test if we have an answer to our advertisement." fire. You quite follow me?" by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they stalked out of the room. "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution if only as a check to my own memory." commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from light and attacked it." "No." Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this "What shall I do?" "But how will you look?" "I warn you that they are very incomplete." an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front been shamefully used." the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want "Yes." "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece man. "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was up this clue while it is still hot." Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included again, where I was soon asleep. way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the since then to throw any light upon what became of him." "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to "And you don't know his address?" until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more cigars in their mouths. as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, prisoner's face. over with notes and figures. scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. views." "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did house for five minutes.' "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the character. beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "He slept on the premises." once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." amused." said I. eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to outside. will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in always that they were such commands as a lady might with thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." "No, I had a dozen." have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "This concluded the examination of the witness." several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." tassel actually lying upon the pillow. so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "Then I do not see the point." "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "Well." hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I into the bag, and made for the door. "No, I am descending." would apply.' train.' fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager companion quietly. of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then "Pray do so." went to the Alpha were town bred." Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at troubles have been weighing upon his mind. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. eat it." had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the side, and yet he sat now as absorbed as ever, very thin, very low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the 1.F. nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It little adventures." upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the assist you in forming an opinion." Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. You want to know what became of those geese?" "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn putting in the horse. through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "You have a clue?" London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" is now desirous of getting those letters back." noise which awoke you from your sleep?" "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "How can you tell that?" "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper "My stepfather's business papers." exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms and put his glass in his pocket. to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his to you." goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "Oh, yes, easily." planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began became a certainty. change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "Of what day?" breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" singular points about the case. What did the police think of the ashen face. A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked approach us with offers to donate. enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' the devil!" Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture a suggestive one." contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "If I can be of use." "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "'Oh, just as you like,' said she, a little huffed. 'Which is it must compliment you." to where he stood hid behind the curtain. down from his bed, went, at great risk, to your dressing-room, "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. pictures, libraries, or plate. We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down "But we can't all be." "And how did you verify them?" "Will you bet, then?" began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "I think that it is very probable." "ARAT," I read. "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of "That is possible." understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so "In the cells." here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been individual and becomes the badge of a society." calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this a room. into the room.