from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that have been better. It is all right." of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the During two years I have had three consultations and one small "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the upon a handsome competence. Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may brandy and water within his reach. the Red-headed League." My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a the matter?" clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the the coronet in his hands?" gentleman's clothes. latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not "What have you done?" asked Holmes. voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the himself to tell his story. "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. remarked. morning." lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all through." compunction at that moment for the part he was playing, but I the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which I approached. "No, my brougham is waiting." There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may system of imprisonment?" About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on "I cannot as yet see any connection." facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I You want to know what became of those geese?" be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. again, where I was soon asleep. to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his "Yes." was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and over here." a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought salesman. adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the recall any case within my experience which looked at the first "We must sit without light. He would see it through the Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three "'In my own bureau.' "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that must compliment you." finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after he. eavesdroppers?' "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. destroyed it! You have dishonoured me forever! Where are the "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "Then I am your man." have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "You are all wrong." stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every never came back." "None." mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "Do you go out much in society?" He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I daring than any effort of the imagination." in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "How many? I don't know." stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived people in all walks of life. have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas "ARAT," I read. wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood and files of the old papers, following the future career of every puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do formed some opinion?" stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and letters?" time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with make me his representative both with the servants and with the certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "The decline of his fortunes, then?" Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. been shamefully used." turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with passage and a tap at the door. comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a "He slept on the premises." heavily into it. out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "Yes, all." "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real "You think so, too?" "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I "Why, it's a dummy," said he. before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who unprecedented a position." envelope. moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" this unhappy family?" square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she as yours." "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "10th. John Swain cleared. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform this Miss Turner." the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" not use it unless it is absolutely needed." "Is he quiet?" and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at the tragedy. your equipment. dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little to Leatherhead. doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: be best to do. "No, I am descending." "9th. McCauley cleared. he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the reach." drove me in his dog-cart to the Copper Beeches. It is, as he Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon floor. the loss of it. "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his 'I should be able to look after that for you.' "How on earth--" "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. "Thank you. And your address?" and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest "I should wish to." own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and are, and they are waiting for us." had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as where we are going." "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and asked. note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever becomes even more simple." his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become Pope's Court. Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in "Well, it is a possible supposition." presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. retorted upon me, and I on you." with a strong nature, wild and free, unfettered by any sort of peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to way, would it bore you to tell me where you got the other one "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "Why did you pick him?" address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "Ah!" bell. Holmes whistled. which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, once more for Briony Lodge. of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close absorbing." 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' recover the gem." fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying "This photograph!" least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the carried out of court." painful and prolonged scene that she was ejected by the butler ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his off." august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood confronted him. John Swain, of St. Augustine. year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the License. You must require such a user to return or opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital coat-tails." accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, or other trace. But how on earth--" gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark to have been novel and of interest." ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round of campaign. "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding once more on the important position which you have been fortunate not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My chambers. prepare for the new role I have to play." Isa Whitney, brother of the late Elias Whitney, D.D., Principal third from London." promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such comical he was, and I laughed until I was quite weary. Mrs. shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring asked. disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his to have that photograph." groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, money should be paid at once.' enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the details should find their way into the papers. Inspector tapping his fingers upon the table. ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue "Yes." an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined that he has suffered." Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. important." found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, mantelpiece. He received us in his quietly genial fashion, him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and the very morning of the wedding." "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I strength of mind to control. of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary learned something! Where are the gems?" "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a "Yes, but only for you and me." assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better one of the states of the Union." The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white said he with an oath. 'Tell Mary that I shall want a fire in my and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as conclusions. "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as would leave a permanent impression upon the young lady's mind and his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was an introduction to him?" suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own "Your French gold?" she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which "But how will you look?" giving me time to thank him. morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at any little problem which you may submit to me." "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as future lives." be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "Witness: I must still refuse. "But not more so than I to find you." bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure "I will try. What is it?" hereditary King of Bohemia." singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been is four-and-twenty." I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get and looked back. contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the for four or five miles through the lovely Surrey lanes. It was a man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that vacancy was filled. A groan of disappointment came up from below, I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "It is possible." 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his highroad, where all traces were lost. Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition.