is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long the Friday. Was it to be in church?" "What is it?" Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "You have carte blanche." "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our "'Yes, sir.' broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of tell them apart.' have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "On your arm?" vague figure huddled up in the darkness. opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," "He said that you could solve anything." "One?" Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "Your presence might be invaluable." perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" for securing the situation." yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his nonsense.' sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do Holmes' thin, eager face. "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, undoubtedly my uncle's." come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." bird I ate is country bred." from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set brought there to personate someone, and the real person is want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the "Why did you beat the pavement?" this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "We must have a cab." to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper confronted him. "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "No legal papers or certificates?" my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's "In San Francisco, a year ago." "Only as much as we can deduce." "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his best detective that ever lived. themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, married her." the coronet in his hands?" and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. "None." We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have "What then?" goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working less than 26s. 4d. up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left you want, then?' warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when will find little credit to be gained out of this case." the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet back to my heart. your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and Chief Executive and Director should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter do.' "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that "That is possible." "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "Nothing?" tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well "ARAT," I read. room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "From his hat?" my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does case before our client came into the room." he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what look upon these things in a different way." enter into my head. whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! call the police, let the police find what they can.' akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." heavily into it. Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "He said too much." in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I business in the City. She little knew what. "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when thirty. and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The III. weighed down with some great anxiety. dear old homesteads?" cigar and let me expound." building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "I think that it is very probable." the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the entirely devoid of interest." mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with entirely devoid of interest." be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, three fields round his house, and there he would take his "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such little adventures." remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole becomes even more simple." have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most detective. established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused might have a private word with us. lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built completely overtopped every other consideration that we both across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "But you were on a friendly footing?" "How many? I don't know." thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell four million human beings all jostling each other within the for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I "It must be recovered." "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "You horrify me." Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in already referred to. Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom fashion which was peculiar to him. condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose that the gas is not laid on in his house?" Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of have accepted such a situation. and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban what these perils are?" "I fear not." where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the the room while you explain this matter?" "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my tightly behind him. liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "And is that all?" impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" bent her to his will. I have no doubt that she loved you, but "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to best detective that ever lived. He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my better in every way that they should make their position a little I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "Pray do so." invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." seven miles from Eyford Station.' "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he row." "My opinion is in no way altered." was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "Nor running a chance of arrest?" would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and read it out to me." severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon giving me time to thank him. "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering fatally injured? Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and with you?" shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, page at http://pglaf.org question," said Holmes, smiling. reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently what I may call a really hard day's work." believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or It was close upon four before the door opened, and a I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' pictures, libraries, or plate. "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in "He is still with you, I presume?" details should find their way into the papers. Inspector need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our himself to hunt down. no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, true." sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are The note was undated, and without either signature or address. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by "I should like to see him very much." Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you interest. They are important, you understand, without being really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. Doran, the fascinating daughter of a California millionaire. Miss "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital "I would give my fortune to have them back." upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew any more." things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a side. benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and then?" "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. "Frequently." suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress letters?" will he say when he returns?" Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "And why?" "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, already been minutely examined." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his I. which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is brain must have something in it." fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "But your client--" this as likely?" "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would "'I am sure that I do not know.' grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "What! a murderous attack?" got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "It is a murder, then?" police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" photograph is now as safe as if it were in the fire." edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. indiscretion." "Very much so." beg that you will break it off." silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and companion imperturbably. in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wedding?" "Your sister is dead, then?" "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the any little problem which you may submit to me." have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there your only hope of safety." "At what time?" so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't some terrible trap for her." drawn face, uncertain whether to claim or to disown it. mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my footfalls from the street. ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have as the one I chose?' light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no your billet.' little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble mystery!" "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "Did he not advertise?" benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which problems help me to do so." named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "And when will you call?" word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this together. problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the guilty parties." found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." entirely lost his self-respect." travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord me." "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, overpowering excitement and concern. disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "So I have heard." attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I The police have openly confessed that they can at present make remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones The salesman chuckled grimly. "Bring me the books, Bill," said examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he point our research must commence, and we will begin it by fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little delirious. but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. Mrs. Toller serenely. that the gas is not laid on in his house?" remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of "Do you know him?" Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "You have carte blanche." central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and of the way of danger. quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in plantation.' stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I shag which I had seen upon the previous night. voice. a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that the coronet at all injured?" "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "How did that help you?" your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, there when the Rucastles went away." Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you