that he will be back before evening." absolutely follow my advice in every respect." discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated formed some opinion?" Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very coroner's jury." has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If relation between them, and what the object of his repeated shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I that threaten you." that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was ill-usage at the hands of fortune. swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "Where, then?" not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "But he is right. Oh! I know that he is right. James never did "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who upon an income of about 60 pounds." going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "Surely. Bring him into the sitting-room. There is a comfortable friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "'I am sure if I had known--' comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best there in twenty minutes." It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "I shall most certainly do so." sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she in a friendly supper." her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the vault. The telegram which we eventually received came late one night our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a relief. and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though one of the states of the Union." rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the minor matters until to-morrow." "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the mysterious end." hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the leaning back in his chair. the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been fly from the country. If he braved the matter out, death would time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "Precisely." is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, placed his cuttings. so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting States. "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. interest. They are important, you understand, without being shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "Have they thought of looking outside the house?" when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where During two years I have had three consultations and one small "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to posted to-day." making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "Yes, he did." excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his "Yes, sir." body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend union?" "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know Miss Holder?" like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was that you wished to speak to me?' prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "And I." main points of my analysis." passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "From his hat?" "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." her also." into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he before, for it was considerably after midnight. as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a Farm upon the left." introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "You did not overhear what they said?" "Your French gold?" last few days, and which he anoints with lime-cream. These are your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but lamp in his hand. the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must outstretched palm of the other one. He had always laughed at what had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project to a light-house. showing my impatience. own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be not use it unless it is absolutely needed." more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should "How often?" "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "If I can be of use." the room while you explain this matter?" "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and newspaper selections." sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the out of this horrible affair." "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to hair?' A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" passage and a tap at the door. but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing Leave Paddington by the 11:15." building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I from his sleeves without a sign of cuff or shirt. He spoke in a across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while in darkness. understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" his forehead." promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch rose-bushes. Dr. Gregory B. Newby think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "One?" Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project buttons. Suddenly, with a plunge, as of the swimmer who leaves before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced pity, because in other respects you would really have done very Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into woven round him. "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman of a light. at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their your equipment. hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son interests were the same as his." Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage simple cases which are so extremely difficult." A flush stole over Miss Sutherland's face, and she picked answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. me upon any point which I do not make clear." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I public press." "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this some water from a caraffe. "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has "'Yes.' Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "But how?" male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone place no limit on the sum I may draw." would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "He is still with you, I presume?" reach." paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I to England my mother died--she was killed eight years ago in a going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, closing the door. that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to there when the Rucastles went away." wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "Then, how do you know?" zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his "I am in hopes that she does." "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the approach us with offers to donate. lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we point our research must commence, and we will begin it by "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To Mary, has deserted me." resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might adventure of the Paradol Chamber, of the Amateur Mendicant building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole said Mr. Holder. II. depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." details." looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out south, for the country is more deserted there." was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not do you make of it all?" strength of mind to control. Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do ready to-morrow?' "None." "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. "But to whom?" and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" standing smiling on the door-step. at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, "What, then, did Peterson do?" "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be thin, with a long, sharp nose?" hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and upon an income of about 60 pounds." notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being foot. "'I had better put my hat on, I suppose.' Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "It was." "That is unusual in a young girl." railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "Where, indeed?" here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" I leave." a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his do.' made him keep the appointment." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the "I never have." before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I a suggestive one." his face. "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not "In heaven's name, what for?" "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very "I see many objections to any such theory." is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them "What is it, then--a fire?" said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, nothing save the occasional bright blur of a passing light. Now if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your over with notes and figures. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have the one as in the other." I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the burst into a hearty fit of laughter. a little more before I quite committed myself. deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are was suffering from some strong agitation, which it took all his glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and will find little credit to be gained out of this case." entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in again before evening." was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs handed it to him. one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo father's young wife. Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, read it out to me." wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "She told me to ask you." sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the down. conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to "Yes, from Horsham." coroner's jury." The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for for and were ordered to this address. quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable particular state visit http://pglaf.org "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did "Whatever your reasons may be, you are perfectly correct," said themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and Mrs. Toller serenely. we went to search for him, face downward in a little the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you Chief Executive and Director hand, madam?" a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner experiences." "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, "And from a noble client?" "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "Thank you. And your address?" "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a my special province." It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the "And from a noble client?" days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a train.' saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, up this clue while it is still hot." brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "'There is a drive, then?' "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to despair." that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime."