"And how did he make his money?" which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so been deceived." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. like gravel from a pit.' "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without so.' laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare Holmes rather sternly. gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and the address that was given us in the advertisement. the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which "'What do you call purely nominal?' that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began and shall probably return to London by the evening train." of them has the shutters up.' written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been emerged. he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a "It is a murder, then?" visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential into an insinuating whisper, and doubly secure on account of the your bag." "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." that "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who meant." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "To ruin me." TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "But she could not love him." "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" have had none more fantastic than this." "How did you trace it, then?" endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a business." small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the bed dies. Does not that strike you?" propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "A confidential servant?" you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to just called myself is not exactly my own." words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some memory. "No sign of it?" I was concerned in it." simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for questionable one." an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Now it was clear to will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, begin with, and I had not got mine yet." "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home legal crime." office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open "Awake, Watson?" he asked. to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length felt?" "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now and files of the old papers, following the future career of every It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after something of him before." companion. "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and conversation I have gathered that they have been married about business matters.' Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "In heaven's name, what for?" "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," which are rolled in Rotterdam." "It certainly sounds feasible." lectures into a series of tales." Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return me. "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that it with his own hands." the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "Not social, then?" only touch the interest." seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular see no less than five, I think that there can be little doubt like that before?" "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "On the contrary, this is the right side." detained." "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her Holmes' room. spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every papers diligently of late, have you not?" determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for or other trace. But how on earth--" "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we that?' washing it down with a long draught of water. "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" own family. and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "My photograph." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us himself to tell his story. and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." later, upon the night of May 2nd." were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "Better close the front door," cried Holmes, and we all rushed bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "That is possible." "BALLARAT." where she found matters as described by the last witness. of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, highroad, where all traces were lost. about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with there has been an enclosure here!" previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to ADVENTURE IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a by my violence a small cut which I had inflicted upon myself in "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, morning." his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." carriage. It was a chestnut." "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." a few minutes he said that it would be all right. while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she of Mr. Rucastle's." would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts Stoke Moran. It is not necessary that I should prolong a Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "Yes, the wine-cellar." some water from a caraffe. understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been character. the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and attention." discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of "You have carte blanche." to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with Nights, with no explanation save that the things had been paid roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "Yes." "Entirely." "But how could you guess what the motive was?" Do you not see some loophole, some flaw? Do you not yourself into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to upon record before, but a promise of secrecy was made at the home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away "And you thought he was pulled back?" and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I upon the white wrist. might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than remarked. "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "My dear Holmes!" monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, had this final quarrel? rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There wedding?" "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up "Ample." not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger to change my dress. his father, and that there is no doubt that he had that very day A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the floor. Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers Of course I never doubted for a moment that my first duty was now door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." to-morrow." "And you thought he was pulled back?" again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "The murder was done with it." to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. to change my dress. enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. been." "Did you observe the colour?" her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare client, rising. thin, with a long, sharp nose?" I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing the very letters. But what is this written above them?' "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. and capable of preserving a secret.' the so-precious time, but come!' "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave locked. time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "I do." house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," then?" "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, made him keep the appointment." who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a "Then, how do you know?" light and attacked it." friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." to go over the ground. On the other hand, a man should be at his should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the bare slabs of marble. which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "No, my brougham is waiting." http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come the coronet in his hand?" "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old friend's singular character. minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." sir, I shall approach this case from the point of view that what "Then I do not see the point." License. You must require such a user to return or varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "My photograph." is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "BALLARAT." among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be amused." finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was be best to do. "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the within hail.' occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. "'Why that?' I asks. the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "That is also quite modern," said the lady. 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at the little opening for the ventilator is." "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from the child." when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" retorted upon me, and I on you." given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "And sit in the dark?" was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, throat." Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my late!' "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "Ah!" cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, upon an income of about 60 pounds." "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a recall any case within my experience which looked at the first "No bad?" the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most papers on the sundial.'" "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is what had become of the Red-headed League. He said that he had "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in standing smiling on the door-step. the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "In heaven's name, what for?" "A client, then?" golden eyeglasses. It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your that, and I came down." are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "But I am all in the dark." "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with such an expenditure as they were at. It must, then, be something pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the meanly of me." I have it here in my museum." the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of society." cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. respectable self." gbnewby@pglaf.org "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late ways of our fellow-men." have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "I cannot think." "Your hands, my dear sir. Your right hand is quite a size larger exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded upon a handsome competence. "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing to that open window." you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual