overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood "Not yet." "It may not come to that," said Holmes. a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "Stolen." business at Coburg Square is serious." "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." and inquire as to the address." while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their woven round him. my friend's incisive reasoning. which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and careless servant girl?" dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill "And help." "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You brandy and water within his reach. too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in threw them down and began to admire the scenery. It was an ideal lips." armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the Heh?' sound of movement, and then all was silent once more, though the appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock my friend's incisive reasoning. "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, criminal. We have already had experience of such." Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "Yes, but only for you and me." of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "I would pay ten." notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he think, you have already met." "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." indeed happy." license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them think you a quite exceptional woman." thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers how narrow had been my escape. bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular ordinary clothes on?" you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one happened." downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend little trying to do so much typewriting?" crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is "I shall most certainly do so." freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges "You are hungry," I remarked. kind enough to tell me what I should do." "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." suspect him." hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air within hail.' neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself "Proceed, then." problems help me to do so." secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at indeed which he could not unravel. my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens him, and what was it to them, who were playing for thousands? "None." no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is hard-headed British jury." Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but which was all perfectly true. Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is My friend smiled. made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, words came to my lips. "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house ashen face. scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "It was an hour's good drive." "One of the highest in England." and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of http://gutenberg.net/license). "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the have not had my rubber." then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared second." glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow flock.' "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To himself to tell his story. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I you came in." seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less "And who is her maid?" "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a could gather together that I was able to avert another public stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the "How did you trace it, then?" didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the Leadenhall Street--and--" tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, the very morning of the wedding." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had ordinary clothes on?" to-night?' know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul there were so many in the whole country as were brought together pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "An enemy?" "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and "You have the photograph?" "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this the window, rose as we entered. an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the village inn over there?" "This photograph!" strong and stiff." I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, humiliation." Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some begin with, and I had not got mine yet." stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when the driver. "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. sufficient punishment." whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you sofa. This way, please!" last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything of the one which your family is now devouring." then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler "No, I must go. My heart is lightened already since I have square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "'Ample.' should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted the warnings." "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been placed his cuttings. America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during upon the stair, some going up in hope, and some coming back "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "And when will you call?" "What is it?" learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. lectures into a series of tales." in the port of London." old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you Chief Executive and Director down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers train from Paddington which would bring you there at about daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which could not have written that. It is the German who is so into her hand at the door and which lured her within their she to prove their authenticity?" the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming "That also I could fathom." your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is when your master had gone out." surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every only touch the interest." a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, vault. vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "BALLARAT." whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous come back in the evening at the hour you have mentioned, for I woven round him. Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it "What! a murderous attack?" seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it "No, I had a dozen." some city in a dream. there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond of the one which your family is now devouring." "It is half-past ten now." a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which must compliment you." done what I asked you, Jones?" client, rising. and that he would see to anything that turned up. the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "The King of Scandinavia." finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was Gutenberg-tm License. calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen present." "'There is a drive, then?' "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. chamber, so we passed at once to the second, that in which Miss a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen writer." repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked "Indeed, Doctor," said Holmes blandly. "Pray take a seat." you." deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "How many? I don't know." third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" woven round him. Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not him and tried to hold him back. me. pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. married her." "No." "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that that pity, because in other respects you would really have done very "It surprised me." "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a until night should bring an explanation. It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed anything to a woman, for she would have her way." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was in him." know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "What office?" "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the question you as to those details which seem to me to be most thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few strength in the others." acted in my house last night?" While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "He is still with you, I presume?" lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "None." "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You prepare for the new role I have to play." who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had already been minutely examined." means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of morning." "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at miles off. "Nor running a chance of arrest?" Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him horse could go." "To an English lawyer named Norton." relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "You have but to name it." however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a narrative." "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up vault. I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "ARAT," I read. elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and of a light. little adventures." week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the one, white, with a barred tail. I caught it, and prying its bill It was close upon four before the door opened, and a and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before "'Entirely.' have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "The decline of his fortunes, then?" papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged in this note: "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the placed his cuttings. Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this and the whole place is in a blaze." Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and "The rest you will leave in our hands." she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he hour?' action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was of his shoulders. over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It bears upon the case?" Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I ill-usage at the hands of fortune. with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and call it cruel." "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did There was a movement and an exclamation from my right, and like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was infinite languor in his face. "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking desk. farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been the date of his supposed suicide." belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to straightened it out again. "Not social, then?" American. Then who could this American be, and why should he secret." The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't and laid it on the table. the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "My dear Holmes!" adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it think that he is innocent?" "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock happened." ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' "And I." practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell happened." who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil "'Where could I find him?' the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. footfalls from the street. Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time been." morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated good for you to do.' once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to as the one I chose?' "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible