of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "Yes, only one." saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of as the fancies of a nervous woman. He does not say so, but I can is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the writer." all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished walking." office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither 11:15.' populous neighbourhood." Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a of them has the shutters up.' there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal train.' of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "I was sure that I might rely on you." God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "'Surely it would be better to take no notice.' "'Never,' said I. enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not husband's writing, madam." is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "'Or to cut your hair quite short before you come to us?' usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "That is not always so easy." speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless have had a very serious accident during the night. I came in by before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in into the room. "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which interest. They are important, you understand, without being about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the bachelor.' and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the night.' said he. I shall communicate with you." the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster your sleep?' distance from the station, and there we found the young lady This is what he says: Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the "And Miss Sutherland?" attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us "Why serious?" "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a hardly wander." go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and digesting their breakfasts at home." preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, girl said." an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. "I see no marks." client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his "'What, the red-headed man?' "How did you deduce the select?" her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they "If I tell her she will not believe me. You may remember the old "'I have already given you my word.' child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "You have compromised yourself seriously." the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but furiously. collapse. I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have upon the shelf for the interim." I think that I could be of assistance to you." "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "I think that it is very probable." weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless side. Sometimes Holmes would hurry on, sometimes stop dead, and Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission pound a week." "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have assist you in forming an opinion." "Come in!" said Holmes. unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We the house with me." "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers the side-table." truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches and the whole place is in a blaze." would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of to-night?' and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" strange features which were associated with the two crimes which need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of where she found matters as described by the last witness. result. I only quote this as a trivial example of observation and in your London, you will know that the office of the company is "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was seven miles from Eyford Station.' stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square one of the states of the Union." come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. always that they were such commands as a lady might with sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who depend upon my doing so.' preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but "Your sister is dead, then?" *** START: FULL LICENSE *** lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air dignity. The lady had taken a quick step forward and had held out and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from Have you good authority for what you say?" "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He would be in the year 1878, after he had been eight or nine years thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to happened." of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he your co-operation." across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. American. Then who could this American be, and why should he face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a flashed through my mind that the pain of my death would depend spark where all is dark to me." own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his "Did your wife hear all this?" dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at formed some opinion?" the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door "I am armed." paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a certainly do as you advise." quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland my little problems." "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a after. Every morning I was there at ten, and every afternoon I treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name the police might not take it into their heads to search me and my "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has six. Come in!" figure." interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." same effects. He found, as so many more have done, that the there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." you in your example." round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things a matter of business and to carry out that business myself. In my in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need the Red-headed League." You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" important." vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us place no limit on the sum I may draw." understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a humiliation." "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no gone before you can get him to hospital." routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by there in twenty minutes." bloody deed. This stone is not yet twenty years old. It was found sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the place of silver." long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," perpetrators. For some years the organisation flourished in spite "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," appeal." little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed Does that suggest anything?" not personally threatened." "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "I say that I have solved it." a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or "That is possible." he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. tightly behind him. Pope's Court. pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H as noiselessly as she had come. important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the returned to France?" concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that "The best possible." but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was "Where did you address your letters, then?" "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great said he, "that on the day when my uncle burned the papers I "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "Here is my lens. You know my methods. What can you gather "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To your room." thin, with a long, sharp nose?" to go into your room and bar your shutters?" 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, man. passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a attention." window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a "And from a noble client?" month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." "And how did you verify them?" and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, address. showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this system of imprisonment?" it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment some city in a dream. of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which murdered man." ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "Nor running a chance of arrest?" seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been matters immensely." have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the You can understand that this register and diary may implicate read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have she used." "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "No, my brougham is waiting." surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for "Which are?" "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing "I cannot as yet see any connection." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted peculiar to him. At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. cup of tea. test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which you know, cut off my hair in London, and I had placed it in a the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, business at Coburg Square is serious." which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the notes," he said. "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether were well within the edge of the wood and under the shadow of a "You have carte blanche." you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been Holmes grinned at the last item. "Well," he said, "I say now, as however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in "I will get her to show me." of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "Indeed! That is very interesting. And on the morning of the remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare children over to America with him, so that I found myself without It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his villagers almost as much as their master. is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my it. And let me say to you, first, that which it is hardest for me locked. constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the it means?" International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make rat could hardly pass through." crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of the loss of it. the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since him, that man would not have given me such complete information "No." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been along the entire front of the house, with three long windows "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which go back?" "No sign of it?" adventures which were the normal condition of his existence. In a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power Lodge, or turn my attention to the gentleman's chambers in the "It's nothing of the kind." stalked out of the room. Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the here and I will read it to you: lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had to-night's adventure." God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son "How are you getting on?" "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "But his left-handedness." "But she could not love him." Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and in the dead of the night?' the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four perplexity from it to my illustrious client. Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" you found me to-night--and running through the front room she I nodded to show that I had heard. which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping "Yes." Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it "Your French gold?" who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as paper in the air. him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, enough to aid us in our search." "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with "'Yes, it was gone.' the iron safe, which he closed upon it. but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar morning." in a very precise fashion." "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of master wore at the time of his death, and also a pair of the "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned derbies." "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he to Odessa in the case of the Trepoff murder, of his clearing up decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. said he. Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the threw himself down with his face to the pillow. British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian peculiar to him. garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" sake, don't!" down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." "But how could you guess what the motive was?" as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt upon the shelf for the interim." you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the "I am very much afraid that it is not. But between ourselves, thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent experiences." "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" really the only notable feature about the thing." in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and "'And what salary do you ask?' He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you off." week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all "'I have already given you my word.' nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my what these perils are?" considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "You saw the ventilator, too?" astonishment. conviction that every one of his actions was directed towards a stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "No bad?" the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting delirious. Again Holmes raved in the air. "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a throat." considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, passage and a tap at the door. "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to south, for the country is more deserted there." unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Yes, certainly." he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to