Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "If so, much may have happened between." submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working here and I will read it to you: Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in delighted to hear it," he said. hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was weary and pale-looking. rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert other side of the room, began to tell me a series of the funniest lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "God bless you!" cried the prisoner passionately. "I would have week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. Eyford." It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a one of them." behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." read over the extraordinary announcement. '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were to some other building. "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, brought there to personate someone, and the real person is sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, appointment with me for six o'clock?" Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were night.' said he. her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and experiences." them?" are windows in it, of course?" "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to "Well, it is a possible supposition." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and once more to my work. its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was "The rest you will leave in our hands." dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no was it brought him the coronet? evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at furiously. as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "You have carte blanche." would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, "'As governess?' Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "Have you it here?" hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped "Here?" forehead. the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the relief. adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "No. What a strange idea!" tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the crowd. and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her gone. chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been you came in." story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, "Perhaps I have." always that they were such commands as a lady might with year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat face and glided from the room. electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of answered with a sidelong glance. have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, better grown goose." rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. the bedside of the sufferer. It was not until close upon six twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I know that she will do it. You do not know her, but she has a soul the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "What then?" would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their papers of the same week. Ah, here it is: 'There will soon be a rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "An elderly man, I presume?" said Holmes. 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing reach." to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from sentimental considerations in the background which would induce "None." assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." get the tickets." "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when bill, which interests me deeply." registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross walking." "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all at a side door. ordinary clothes on?" Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue a regurgitation of water through one of the side cylinders. An "It was an hour's good drive." "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys "You heard nothing yourself last night?" a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin and sees whether she has anything which would suit them. very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that side. remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close maid will bring up your coffee." it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "Where to?" the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for only son, Arthur. He has been a disappointment to me, Mr. Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and congenial hunt. threw himself down with his face to the pillow. Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble young Openshaw's." "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different leaning back in his chair. before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little the goodness, also, when you address me always to say 'sir' and these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a the station." rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "He said that you could solve anything." "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with before the coroner and the police-court." by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and the royal houses of Europe have shown that you are one who may answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more minor matters until to-morrow." peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would "Then what has happened to him?" "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "Precisely." lives upon the second floor of the opium den, and who was while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "Will you bet, then?" drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been line asking me to join him when he made the sign to me to do so. "I shall see you at Horsham, then?" "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been During two years I have had three consultations and one small of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature money should be paid at once.' office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a were new raised from a basin. Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. bed dies. Does not that strike you?" errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate one of them." style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he "What will you do, then?" an introduction to him?" but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. companion rose to greet her, "but I have had a very strange she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "I would pay ten." forehead. "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to in this note: have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still steps--for the house was none other than the opium den in which between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the interests were the same as his." unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his "Very much so." orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was "Perhaps I have." servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or as noiselessly as she had come. "The vanishing of the lady." gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven Holmes rather sternly. looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I room. Would the body be dressed in a coat alone?" friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "'You doubt its value?' he asked. on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "Do you receive much company?" he asked. should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, there is a decided draught." hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To "It is true that I have been generally successful." "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to grasp, he hurried from the room. You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the "Precisely." little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. shag which I had seen upon the previous night. "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' such person." "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took directly by questioning you." "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not presented more singular features than that which was associated "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good caught a glimpse of rushing figures, and a moment later the voice Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the which it had come upon my father." "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its him to be an active member of the medical profession." indiscretion." away to you." sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very memory. "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." at the side window of the hall, which she closed and fastened as the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden walking." papers diligently of late, have you not?" law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "It is very clear." out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not "Who was the criminal, then?" have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and "It's nothing of the kind." and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of "It is his hat." entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I and wait." never will be, entirely cleared up. interest. They are important, you understand, without being "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have "When did she vanish, then?" "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your hair?' Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "Have you it here?" "My dear Holmes!" prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall fashion which was peculiar to him. should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and Holmes' thin, eager face. "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety introspective fashion. depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the because she had spent so short a time in this country that she really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "I cannot imagine." "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from Arthur Conan Doyle or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my presume?" with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted. He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is I think that I could be of assistance to you." some mystery and the punishment of some crime." schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at was a loud and authoritative tap. "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen "I will get her to show me." permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty society." white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of other lovers by making love himself." met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found "'Certainly not.' "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to "Oh, tut, tut! I have no time! That left foot of yours with its upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may to-night." happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or or in danger--" rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this becomes even more simple." morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "But his left-handedness." gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would and put his glass in his pocket. some terrible trap for her." simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which get her out of the way." my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his at a side door. quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. Countess of Morcar's?" nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I relation between them, and what the object of his repeated The police have openly confessed that they can at present make for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. "'Certainly,' I answered. had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not than was visible to me." they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that over with notes and figures. as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less me, and I could not think that his explanation of the most important business. It is probable that he will be away all zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I friend's singular character. warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. papers must be those that are destroyed.' "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "And when will you call?" eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set