with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. recognised in that den my life would not have been worth an copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that my secret was safe in his possession. public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." back alive. left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP "Nothing." "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an point our research must commence, and we will begin it by ears, and next moment I fell in a dead faint among the broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was father's young wife. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "But we can't all be." is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "Oh, indeed! Then you think that the Serpentine plays no part in the iron safe, which he closed upon it. It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth was a loud and authoritative tap. Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "I assure you that I am in your hands." through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning outside. "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, seen the man in the road." that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves over part of the map. "What do you read?" "Small, stout-built, very quick in his ways, no hair on his face, incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the problems help me to do so." shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and compunction about shooting them down." grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming cigars in the box." "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if following enigmatical notices: I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me heavily into it. time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "'And the work?' "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon him." card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon of campaign. "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen my secret was safe in his possession. call the police, let the police find what they can.' "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in the room while you explain this matter?" "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the it means?" have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "Ah, but I was recommended to you." that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To without a word or a look. better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I politicians who had been sent down from the North. took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." hour?' Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, call it cruel." "What have you done?" asked Holmes. not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his "You are certainly joking, Holmes." "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "And sit in the dark?" Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "None." "Yes." there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily carpenter." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should "'And the work?' Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, was not a bird to be seen there. rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "Whose house is it?" learn, the only native-born Americans in the ship. The others are I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men returning from some small jollification and was making his way reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City I was concerned in it." would apply.' if she died from some sudden fright." tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the to arrive at through this?" "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I him nearly every evening." help us in this matter." any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "My eye caught the name of Openshaw, and the heading 'Tragedy were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my papers must be those that are destroyed.' "Never." so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose ways of our fellow-men." "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "'In my own bureau.' Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to south, for the country is more deserted there." of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, which is a distinct proof of a weakening nature. On the other During two years I have had three consultations and one small writing, and yet I know it well." "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step "Nothing." little adventures." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "I beg pardon." permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "The London press has not had very full accounts. I have just "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what "I saw her in conversation with her maid." "We were both in the photograph." he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. whatever might befall. loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "Ah, but I was recommended to you." observed. "Absolutely none." consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "We have tried and failed." brain must have something in it." copied or distributed: see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it the ceiling. hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. murdered man." beside him, curious to learn what this new quest might be which have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. "No, distinctly professional." as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! "What then?" American. Then who could this American be, and why should he the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." and the colonel ushered me in. I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with other means.' "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "A little too much so. It seemed to me that her mistress allowed little trying to do so much typewriting?" flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery compunction about shooting them down." away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "Dr. Becher's." indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "What do you make of that, Watson?" it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your fuss that is made over them." "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to habit of advancing money.' would occur to him that it would swim and not sink. He has little had picked up in the wood. time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and is entirely a question of barometric pressure." villagers almost as much as their master. where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a "Yes, he did." latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent your Highness to the police-station?" "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "We were both in the photograph." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the "Why, what do you mean?" thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" "The vanishing of the lady." down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring she slowly sank and died without having recovered her that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes recall any case within my experience which looked at the first minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as glanced my eye over it. It rested upon a heading which sent a "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah "Then I shall certainly come." "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in Sholtos." for and were ordered to this address. think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. that he had a wooden leg. I could even tell that they had been and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. chill to my heart. shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "No bad?" age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew the morning and make my own way in the world.' Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less "And how did he make his money?" during that time.' whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly job, and that is absolutely all that my profession has brought "Proceed, then." returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. to tackle the facts." grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended "Do you receive much company?" he asked. could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," The King stared at him in amazement. "And who is her maid?" "It may not come to that," said Holmes. is entirely a question of barometric pressure." Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, He picked it up and gazed at it in the peculiar introspective begin with, and I had not got mine yet." man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One go--none." of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." and it need not interfere very much with one's other "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine observed. home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have there is a decided draught." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of Where does the thing come from?' slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small Holmes' thin, eager face. "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of "And now?" He raised his hand. ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round "Perhaps I have." of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon presume?" Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he the stable lane now." and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I the one as in the other." unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our "No." "No bad?" "A feeling of repulsion, and of something akin to fear had begun "That sounds a little paradoxical." creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I orange pips. consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." "Yes." intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "Do you know him?" "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project "'It is locked up,' I answered. has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in "Not in a good cause." have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present But Holmes shook his head gravely. "And who is her maid?" outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. note the peculiar construction of the sentence--'This account of people don't know." the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" would apply.' much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right "She walked into the breakfast-room." thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an south, for the country is more deserted there." Gutenberg-tm License. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered at climbing down holes than I am. Just hold out while I fix the orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, chemical work which was so dear to him. shoulder; "he's all right." "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "Dr. Becher's." the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and to-night's adventure." the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg evidence," I remarked. It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so and put his glass in his pocket. "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty "That is unusual in a young girl." hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence been with you?" opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. "Pray sit down on the sofa," said Holmes gently. "You had my three of the beryls in it, was missing. "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave "Why serious?" has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall think you a quite exceptional woman." "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and bare slabs of marble. business in the City. She little knew what. answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." during which he might have communicated with his friend the whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small "In which, sir?" the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further possessed in so high a degree, and which it is the object of "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the that it is quite clear that there must be more than one of them. to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door shall not find me ungrateful." is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One "And you are a benefactor of the race," said I. that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down tear off another piece?' He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "One of his hands." could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, during that time.' help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put ran thus: sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin the Assizes." and glanced through. Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and drove away. himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "It seems to me to be a most dark and sinister business." heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. mysterious business." possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature any." together, bound from Reading to the little Berkshire village. away into the river." heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not "I am armed." "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned evidence of this wound of mine, I should be surprised if they "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "His face fell immediately. "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know instituted." British peeress.'" acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard suspect him." plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce ill-usage at the hands of fortune. from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet examine." savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his Clay. His grandfather was a royal duke, and he himself has been papers diligently of late, have you not?" nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but events than those which have happened in my own family." voice, changing her seat as requested. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "'Where could I find him?' with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any power." yourselves in at night?" incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, troubles have been weighing upon his mind. and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of