deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "Pray do so. I shall be all anxiety." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have foot. Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 that you wished to speak to me?' "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "You don't mind breaking the law?" your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and to him, and I determined to do just whatever he might direct. Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, leave you to your papers for a little." copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the "So it appears." "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "My dear Holmes!" I leave." was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions me upon any point which I do not make clear." got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found where she found matters as described by the last witness. chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen "She told me to ask you." feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel long narrative. which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was the capture of mice, little birds, and insects. But I would Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut she used." "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and Young McCarthy must be got off, however." until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and India. He has died within ten seconds of being bitten. Violence bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to "Not him." assist you in forming an opinion." and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "And for present expenses?" not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of had picked up in the wood. slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had the stable lane now." "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he the bottom.' he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune careless servant girl?" exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in While she was walking in this way down Swandam Lane, she suddenly "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he "One of the highest in England." opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. opinion upon the subject in the course of a day or two. To-day is business at Coburg Square is serious." than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more His name is Francis Prosper." before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them "Your sister is dead, then?" served to weaken the effect. lost nothing by them." his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if My friend smiled. what is your own theory as to what took place?" than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction he was only a few years older than me; but I didn't want to do green of the new foliage. to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a have been senseless for a long time. When I came to I found that which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even "Then what has happened to him?" "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where "It missed him, then?" shaken than I had ever seen him. tail." now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." "Yes." is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the vault. "When did she vanish, then?" has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "In the cells." that he will be back before evening." Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency Watson," he said cordially. a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which people in all walks of life. and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "I will, Miss Turner." neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. new acquaintance to Baker Street. "I should like to see him very much." than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but Miss Holder?" goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his I. "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' being in the central block of the buildings. Of these bedrooms "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "Nothing?" that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank should be taken.' took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a roused himself from his reverie. sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "But his left-handedness." have been better. It is all right." probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There it." to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" yet." while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over address. while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." corner of the building. with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the been told that if the King employed an agent it would certainly "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot "'About the same.' man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. hopeless attempt at recovering them." "Why, what do you mean?" likely to be some crony of the landlady's." "How do you know, then?" entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "What will you do, then?" "'Oh, no.' paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, bled considerably." of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in hands. might have a private word with us. phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in "My private note-paper." "Yes. He waved his hands." I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at "In the cells." given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it "You horrify me." "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such was still sharing rooms with Holmes in Baker Street, that he came would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you was it brought him the coronet? discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as than to us. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few I think that I could be of assistance to you." hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been manager. pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the may have an influence upon European history." I have it here in my museum." terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, "My heart had turned to lead. 'It is K. K. K.,' said I. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET he told inimitably. Then he handed me a yellow-backed novel, and Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train "No, I had a dozen." paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. are right," he cried; "I am the King. Why should I attempt to broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug the window, rose as we entered. from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have "'What would be the hours?' I asked. look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "The King of Scandinavia." "I saw her in conversation with her maid." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an "It is very clear." tradesmen's entrance. On the left ran a lane which led to the "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," which are rolled in Rotterdam." turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with "No?" "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" the stones. a room. "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the "That will do, Mr. Wilson. I shall be happy to give you an obstinate." unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." "What! a murderous attack?" while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might friends, not even his own brother. himself. "Then he might have called to you?" "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid "But how will you look?" collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray looking up at the numbers of the houses." action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just "I was sure that I might rely on you." strong and stiff." no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. sneer upon his pale face. feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given "Very murderous indeed." case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided "'As governess?' steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of lost nothing by them." I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of made his money." very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, "Ah, but I was recommended to you." France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the of Fenchurch Street." Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on attention." became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing humiliation." America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "My last client of the sort was a king." "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my daring than any effort of the imagination." expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" "I cannot imagine." son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your as this. Pray let me have the details." hardly wander." and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable arrangements." and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six bird I ate is country bred." had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out companion. blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. "Very truly yours, should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and national property. I was determined that the law should have its houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there sneer upon his pale face. that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated your sleep?' what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with for securing the situation." fashion which was peculiar to him. "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with for the market.' "Only as much as we can deduce." head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after character. locked. flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "No, I am descending." me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from to tell." pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the might help us?" photograph?" red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: cigar and let me expound." greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give so I took out my bunch of keys and tried to open it. The very we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "Her father is very rich?" "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have pity, because in other respects you would really have done very hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with confronted him. bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a here and I will read it to you: rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce families. Now for the facts. "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect had this final quarrel? aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional of his shoulders. "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." works. 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' avoided the society of the neighbouring English families and to Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off "'Is purely nominal.' stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He "I cannot tell." from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal that the blood was pouring from my wound. I endeavoured to tie my twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied was lame." rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left acted in my house last night?" "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." take the flies, but not before." know--faddy but kind-hearted. If you were asked to wear any dress would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt said I. Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and and prosperity to your house. Good-night." "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater "The Coroner: What do you mean? There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in the side-table." and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, you." where we are going." "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet prepare for the new role I have to play." you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "They are typewritten," I remarked. "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him said he. array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right may have an influence upon European history." "It is half-past ten now." returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to