I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was salesman. the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence used a holder. The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. should be so warm over such a trifle." "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low and the church but not where the lady lived." "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as business at Coburg Square is serious." chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my the address that was given us in the advertisement. myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his "The rest you will leave in our hands." was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a impression behind it as though a window had gently closed acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, what is your own theory as to what took place?" human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between them?" "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some Mrs. Toller serenely. "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, month. 'You shall not have a farthing from me,' I cried, on which through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from in the dead of the night?' description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his His smile broadened. "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. travellers. I had already noticed the peculiarities of the "One of his hands." memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the open." so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will putting in the horse. "What are they?" "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "If so, much may have happened between." they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "Then what has happened to him?" room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, to tackle the facts." a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a was a perfect sample of the class. "I will try. What is it?" permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and to me. leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "Was the window open?" have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is was a lad." on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "You are hungry," I remarked. habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, said he. 'I could not bear the disgrace. I must raise the money age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "Yes." the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, "But you were on a friendly footing?" case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were entirely lost his self-respect." "Then, how do you know?" had formerly been in part my own. much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my "'Where could I find him?' THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE "I shall be delighted." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as his eyes and forehead. Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of "'Quite sure, dad.' sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was "Yes." did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "You have carte blanche." Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every business?" 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a there has been an enclosure here!" without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "9th. McCauley cleared. "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself garden below. "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." friends, not even his own brother. "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the despaired of." "'Certainly,' I answered. understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased copied or distributed: hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. I have it here in my museum." suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the the tragedy. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to "I am to be neutral?" week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless I am not easy in my mind about them." marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. Pope's Court. such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line hurried by. without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is quite distinctive." The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "I have solved it." "There are none." "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and present." "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. was no furniture save a little pallet bed, a small table, and a the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at "Your presence might be invaluable." My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion "Entirely." that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. II. Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at to his chemical studies. "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked events than those which have happened in my own family." to that open window." and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "Yes, at the mines." that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, as to the box and the papers. I shall take your advice in every "There are none." house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a "No, I am descending." thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "When did it break out?" mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' fatally injured? is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, something of him before." the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it straightened it out again. money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must tapping his fingers upon the table. "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, Munro.' what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and "My stepfather's business papers." business at Coburg Square is serious." this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be window when the police appeared." is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. remarked. All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." really the only notable feature about the thing." examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, friends, not even his own brother. garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a we went to search for him, face downward in a little enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't "You have compromised yourself seriously." owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired my little problems." known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at foresight and the moral retrogression?" your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue companion. conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these next day. money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack union?" "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and little woman to-night when she meets me at the door." arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your straighten it?" clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. that?' his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven would apply.' a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" "But how could you guess what the motive was?" Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few hardly wander." George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note practice and made me quite a recognised character in the City. lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "I assure you that I am in your hands." business matters.' to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling "Yes, it was twisted." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been "No, distinctly professional." think that he is innocent?" time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began "He said that you could solve anything." "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was to a more successful conclusion." of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without "Quite so." man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter other motive, she may have been concerned in the strange as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." Henry Baker is a member." be there in time for your coming." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, afternoon. So determined was their denial that the inspector was "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the "Nearly eleven." find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk Hunter, that we had better go in without you. Now, Watson, put bill, which interests me deeply." Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "You are all wrong." "Why? What do you mean?" once more. what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less "Why, what do you mean?" threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll in the dead of the night?' kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that "The Coroner: That is for the court to decide. I need not point Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their help us in this matter." Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my unpleasant couple, but fortunately I spend most of my time in the one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself it." "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "Quite so. She has her freedom." signal between you and your father? arrested. You then--" as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll "Yes." "It might have been difficult, but friend Lestrade held laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, problems help me to do so." "That also I could fathom." other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. fear." bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should Holmes. King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at The summons was a brief and urgent one. vault. parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "Then you may be so with me." would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. residing alone in lodgings in London. By profession I am a house for five minutes.' through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" "Pray be precise as to details," said he. front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "But how?" the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which "The best possible." we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his points in connection with it which never have been, and probably a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! against a man in the prime of life?" "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is "And I say east," said my patient. original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, used to be." spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "By all means." silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "Yes." coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between in one or two places in England?' it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging pound a week." "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I crackling voice. was not a bird to be seen there. "He says four o'clock. It is three now. He will be here in an people in all walks of life. size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, "It came here." however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which last Friday, Mr. Holmes, and I have never seen or heard anything affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm "Of what day?" repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project his fortune, and I went back to pa. purpose of examination. behind me. black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very said he, "my real name is James Ryder." enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four "Well, it is a possible supposition." I am inclined to think neither. Women are naturally secretive, daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been "Nothing." shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked