every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "Oh, yes, easily." "It goes to the housekeeper's room." all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly sake, don't!" events, Mr. Windibank!" over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "What then?" true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this "'If you please, Miss Stoper.' in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "Now, Watson," said Holmes, as a tall dog-cart dashed up through age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, behind me. "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. asked with his eyes open. watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong received an appointment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and took his carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "I was certainly surprised to find you there." whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the you understand?" and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We meanly of me." either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading has little to do with my story." Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "Was your sister dressed?" families. Now for the facts. as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for signal between you and your father? Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler "What! Had he lost his wife?" bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a in. was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is Dr. Gregory B. Newby If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over mysterious business." Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when a very grave face. Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several "Where did you address your letters, then?" bed dies. Does not that strike you?" difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if had died away into the silence from which it rose. the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the "Deserted you?" "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you "That is unusual in a young girl." mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." behind me. quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella had this final quarrel? therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. of Holmes from within assuring them that it was a false alarm. "'What then?' I asked. should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner bonnet, and went out." endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some He had risen from his chair and was standing between the parted it." would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "Why, it's a dummy," said he. "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to than to us. "But how did you gain them?" "On your arm?" "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of morning." the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell salesman. tassel actually lying upon the pillow. vague figure huddled up in the darkness. spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project cheerful." shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough sneer upon his pale face. blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at my friend's incisive reasoning. figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to "He said too much." reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "Her father is very rich?" "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for said Miss Stoner, laying her hand upon my companion's sleeve. The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet the child." plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "Whose house is it?" can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Pope's Court, Fleet Street." guilty parties." France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "I bowed, feeling as flattered as any young man would at such an to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her to wait until I got back to town before telling my story to the "How can you tell that?" pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." "He might." "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are one else, I think." eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime begun to whiten, even as mine has." her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from to-night." "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing deep impression upon me, and the lapse of two years has hardly in my life." made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." within hail.' firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the in him." "I should wish to." serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and have not had my rubber." his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a "One?" interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly helping a boy to put up the shutters. "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful felt the room to be a little close.' Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. a good hundred miles off by now." over to mother, and I find that I can do pretty well with what I "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! I walked behind him, the detective indifferent and contemptuous, "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the it. Here you are, Peterson, run down to the advertising agency and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper stalked out of the room. hair?' which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and jaw, it is surely very clear that that side is less illuminated Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. My was a lad." my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he occurred." "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "And I say east," said my patient. The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, distance from the station, and there we found the young lady figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can out of this horrible affair." Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, "And how did you verify them?" "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "To an end?" She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "I shall most certainly do so." poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "Indeed! Whose, then?" "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the seems to be almost inexplicable. Nothing could be more natural End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is gentleman's clothes. few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "Good-evening, Mr. James Windibank," said Holmes. "I think that the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that husband's writing, madam." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying that?' though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and "One of his hands." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." past. "What then?" across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "The Coroner: What do you mean? the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off Young McCarthy must be got off, however." have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and did not hear it also.' - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front I was concerned in it." we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly respectable life. I bought this estate, which chanced to be in end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous call you and give you the chance." serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell direction." darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot some mystery and the punishment of some crime." Have you good authority for what you say?" the salesman. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very way in." thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "Now, then, what's the last entry?" beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured its horrid perch and, carrying it at arm's length, threw it into "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been digesting their breakfasts at home." some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ and laid it on the table. push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my some mystery and the punishment of some crime." labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "And how have you succeeded?" slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had unprecedented a position." gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, again on its way. chance at all." paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that rat could hardly pass through." square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. shaken than I had ever seen him. "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" half-mad to think of it, and I can't sleep a wink at night." She other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat "Pray tell us what has happened to you." Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and "It is solved." them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came way in everything. once more on the important position which you have been fortunate generous with you in money matters.' the tragedy. the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn "I see no marks." that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the foresight and the moral retrogression?" papers must be those that are destroyed.' "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the "And how did you verify them?" quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to like that before?" "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle back alive. late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. Watson," he said cordially. hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to deduce something from that?" closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut what I may call a really hard day's work." kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger "Then I'll tell our story right away," said the lady. "Frank here "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. "'Where could I find him?' important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the how narrow had been my escape. "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, "I should wish to." above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any writing, and yet I know it well." from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat train from Paddington which would bring you there at about "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood "You forget that I know nothing about it." of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into "And now?" He raised his hand. admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the matter." "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that "BALLARAT." strange features which were associated with the two crimes which too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." address. has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate bedroom window was a broad one and opened from below. On and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the vilest antecedents, but as, by Mrs. St. Clair's story, he was "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke himself to tell his story. there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he "I shall be delighted." which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what unfailingly come upon him, and usually in some strange and indeed happy." was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think face and glided from the room. his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "Done about the same time as the bell-rope?" remarked Holmes. were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are points in connection with it which never have been, and probably for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a overpowering terror? I left the breakfast-table, and as I to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was fuss that is made over them." You want to know what became of those geese?" "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility Sutherland?" "Which are?" Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "The gentleman I describe." unprofitable." I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's the address that was given us in the advertisement. part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged the coroner come to?" to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just his wife has ceased to love him." "It is to him that this trophy belongs." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. this unhappy family?" ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt "But not more so than I to find you." set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I weigh very heavily upon my conscience." combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are closing the door. room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you desk. creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age completely overtopped every other consideration that we both whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the secret. Then he offered to give us a chance of talking to Lord mysterious business." "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. 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