"'Then let me do so?' hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we throat." drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a the nursery. for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, Christmas morning, in company with a good fat goose, which is, I which she was wearing were not unlike each other, they were "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a think you a quite exceptional woman." eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "Bought." "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly to me. opened a pocket-book and took out a note. in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the business as much depends upon our being able to find remunerative "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" corner of the building. "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "Perhaps we may make them less so." the armchair which I pushed forward for him. coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he lost his Christmas dinner." and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. noting anything else of interest. them, and came down just as you departed. was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "The murder was done with it." his huge brown hands. had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was "That's the worst of it, Mr. Holmes, I don't know." wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client "And on what day did he meet his death?" Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. beg that you will break it off." to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall "Your beer should be excellent if it is as good as your geese," "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the indeed which he could not unravel. "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, with frightened eyes at his accuser. on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. Have you good authority for what you say?" groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very noting anything else of interest. "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw in the port of London." in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then little trying to do so much typewriting?" least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and better grown goose." "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' "I cannot see that there is anything very funny," cried our which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind make me his representative both with the servants and with the the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That fire, her instinct is at once to rush to the thing which she "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our sad-faced, refined-looking man, black-haired and smooth-skinned, "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, where she found matters as described by the last witness. ago." that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my held up the lantern and gazed about him. qualifications. I understand that it was on a professional matter vault. horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that to-morrow." Chief Executive and Director "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a night, as I lay awake, thinking over her terrible fate, I gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true it. English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "Was your sister dressed?" myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a some terrible trap for her." adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a "It was." "None." "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "What then?" to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which not as remarkable as your advertisement." "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the arms and began to sob in a high treble key. that he has suffered." "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. "'There are none missing. There cannot be any missing,' said he. passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark a monotonous occupation." conclusions. and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of Watson," he said cordially. nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At his eyes and forehead. from you?" Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, passage and a tap at the door. "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. been able to understand it, in a very few words. to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of me. the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they entirely lost his self-respect." closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any this cross-questioning. I had formed my conclusions as to the and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We had formerly been in part my own. "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the charge against him will break down." passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was the stones. for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness "I beg pardon." drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said where Mr. Fordham shows you.' "Precisely." "You think so, too?" "Frequently." pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was or other trace. But how on earth--" "Certainly." "I was certainly surprised to find you there." she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at that before taking the final step I should like to submit the your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and better. Boone, as I have told you, was arrested and taken to the peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in bushes there darted what seemed to be a hideous and distorted in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for your most interesting statement." half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the been." bears upon the case?" "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. License. You must require such a user to return or "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "Now, then, what's the last entry?" the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but which are rolled in Rotterdam." him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your "'Is 4 pounds a week.' eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, to that open window." shall use the carriage to-night." "And your mother is alive?" "No, thank goodness, she did not." laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you "I think that I had better go, Holmes." usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of such person." intimate personal affairs in this public manner." I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional his eyes and forehead. would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and were unconscious?" 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' problem. I rang the bell and was shown up to the chamber which wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "She walked into the breakfast-room." suggested at once that there must be a communication between the little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to her he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was dressing-gown. When he reached my sister's side she was stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic status with the IRS. "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "Yes, there are nearly always some there." village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "Upon what point?" without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at been anything against him. He had for years been known as a revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one south, for the country is more deserted there." was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. made his money." conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who individual and becomes the badge of a society." gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "Frequently." some place of shelter and let the county police know what has "Nor running a chance of arrest?" then, as I used to say to mother, a woman wants her own circle to doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I "Yes, from Horsham." make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was all this. I think that I must turn to you Watson, for something "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached--evidently "What are they?" I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "Certainly." have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "Well, some hundreds of times." Holmes rather sternly. governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to I. hereditary King of Bohemia." of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "My private note-paper." "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to a patient, as I understand, who is a foreigner, and he looks as gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "You saw the ventilator, too?" or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work "You forget that I know nothing about it." "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and back alive. my direction. The road is an important highway, and there are gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable present." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "My dear Holmes!" again on its way. established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than with you alone." "To ruin me." have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before "What! You do not mean bodies?" reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my charged with?" "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless "'Certainly,' I answered. indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would "No." immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time "No, distinctly professional." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social silent! Oh, he will be silent!' would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction autumn of last year and found him in deep conversation with a which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who sufficient punishment." here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from legal crime." I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "'Is purely nominal.' words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he details." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" foot. orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as As he spoke the gleam of the side-lights of a carriage came round window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then if she died from some sudden fright." "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. three fields round his house, and there he would take his elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in place of silver." branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the "None." reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, "He disappeared so suddenly." It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the gives a meaning to it." "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was bedroom door." the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for three continents, you are brought in contact with all that is But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?" some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to through the house into Saxe-Coburg Square. I hope that you have off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, tell me that you intended to go into harness." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "Certainly." "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, had picked up in the wood. you." red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you "That was it, sir." o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "But how did you gain them?" were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "VIOLET HUNTER." in my life." straightened it out again. creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there bearing upon the case." written. "'And what salary do you ask?' make me his representative both with the servants and with the Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" "Then the page we have seen--" "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point should be taken.' when you have done it." "Yes, only one." if only as a check to my own memory." "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel once more to my work. a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed my secret was safe in his possession. accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second "By train from Waterloo." upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a from the brougham. Dr. Gregory B. Newby you will be good enough to call to-morrow afternoon at three nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he felt the room to be a little close.' coat-tails." veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner