'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used secret." between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and the King without delay." police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down strong and stiff." "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for "Of what day?" Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a "That was it, sir." his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no what these perils are?" slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, matter over." "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which out of this horrible affair." "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the said he, "my real name is James Ryder." he bowed and left the room without another word. "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know John Swain, of St. Augustine. a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" "Will you go?" do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie your Highness to the police-station?" at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "Then how many are there?" "I will try. What is it?" cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott giant frame, he stumbled slowly from the room. tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down one of the states of the Union." "My opinion is in no way altered." allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he any little problem which you may submit to me." prefers wearing a mask to showing his face. And here he comes, if are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. quick march!" present." "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's purpose of examination. Bristol, and his father did not know where he was. Mark that professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "Never to return." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation continued, seeing my look of incredulity. "I have just been "It is a murder, then?" the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than said I. "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes "'Yes, I promise.' one of the states of the Union." clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in "'Stolen!' he cried. "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way "Will you bet, then?" "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he writer." There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for bare slabs of marble. hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while array of bottles and test-tubes, with the pungent cleanly smell anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the "You think so, too?" inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third dangling his glasses more vigorously than ever, and with a very old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your pound notes. When I was alone once more, however, with the the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend "'Most admirably.' "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. "By all means." that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" forebodings. papers diligently of late, have you not?" in one or two places in England?' previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We "How long did she speak to this Alice?" "Who was the criminal, then?" pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same "I am sure." permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could think you a quite exceptional woman." permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day "Thank you. And your address?" that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, in my life." notes," he said. Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money to arrive at through this?" to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." it. as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, golden eyeglasses. It was not very long before my friend's prediction was fulfilled. went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "I think it very unlikely." would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, asked with his eyes open. what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I http://gutenberg.net/license). upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be make me his representative both with the servants and with the and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When prove to be little relation between the different incidents of I am not easy in my mind about them." "Then I am your man." it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark the window, rose as we entered. "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he occupations.' to miss it." suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates the house with me." something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks there in twenty minutes." interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any I sold my character. God help me! God help me!" He burst into for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty really the only notable feature about the thing." "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was firmness. As to his remark about his deserts, it was also not time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "If so, much may have happened between." insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At said he at last. "It was a confession," I ejaculated. advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper spare." of your young ladies.' young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his "You know me, then?" he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." Where does the thing come from?' "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "Only as much as we can deduce." "Do you know him?" a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "His face fell immediately. drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not "I will not look." absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. views." here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a "It looks newer than the other things?" was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their arms and began to sob in a high treble key. 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he have given you all the facts. Since you ask me, however, I may not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a to-night?' time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" "How often?" destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was fall upon the page, he begged me to read aloud to him. I read for that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it ways including including checks, online payments and credit card papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and of the way of danger. "Whose house is it?" I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and "9th. McCauley cleared. husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during troubles have been weighing upon his mind. "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's your billet.' conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "And the cigar-holder?" feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "Then how many are there?" "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the "But I am somewhat headstrong by nature, and the more ready to general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to upon the barrel of a revolver, but Holmes' hunting crop came ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a against a man in the prime of life?" The telegram which we eventually received came late one night "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able "We both thought the best resource was flight, when pursued by "Never." Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the coat-tails." have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend "It goes to the housekeeper's room." King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I "Yes, it would be as well." to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "Entirely." "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, interest. They are important, you understand, without being "'About the same.' drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to anything to do with the matter?" "What shall I do?" see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "Quite so." "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "And Miss Sutherland?" from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further Foundation brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered "You horrify me!" sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. ways including including checks, online payments and credit card he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "'As governess?' carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love of a light. "And from a noble client?" "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, served to weaken the effect. last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and could gather together that I was able to avert another public evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." address. shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly go from here to the Strand." were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two http://gutenberg.net/license). tail." story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a and sound. I must go now, Doctor; I have my dooties, just the and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I Again Holmes raved in the air. were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the name is different." "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. upon a handsome competence. province." the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, possible that he is indeed the culprit. There are several people hardly wander." There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "'What are you doing there?' he asked. did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler "Yes." "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. "But your client--" had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My "She will not sell." "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "Dr. Becher's." apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy October 9, 1890. Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I Good-afternoon, Miss Stoner. You see that we have been as good as comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "Dirty?" "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down of your young ladies.' the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "Seven!" I answered. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." Watson," he said cordially. "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." answered with a sidelong glance. abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those presume?" battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, point in the dark hollow of his hand. "And I to find an enemy." the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "Yes." and wait." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' she used." space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from It may be so in this case, also." there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. of it with the greatest attention. another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which