been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few my special province." convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an "And when will you call?" the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined imbecility!" he cried. which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was that there was nothing in it, after all." to tell." to have been novel and of interest." think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, clang of the bell. Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant charged with?" "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage grating wheels against the curb, followed by a sharp pull at the "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit Wimpole Street, Harley Street, and so through Wigmore Street into without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter "I have come for advice." a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." not, dad?" she asked. gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying "He disappeared so suddenly." He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out me have 200 pounds?' first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his Street. our word." For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "I think that it is very probable." rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence to-night's adventure." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and foresight and the moral retrogression?" back alive. the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite ceremony." "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a hair?' cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "I should prefer to have clearer proofs before I speak." "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it "He disappeared so suddenly." "Was your sister dressed?" Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or coat-tails." Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and dates and names. it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "To the police?" might have a private word with us. particular state visit http://pglaf.org delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "Your sister is dead, then?" "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. chemical work which was so dear to him. he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now "Thank you. Pray proceed." could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to "I say that I have solved it." "Did you become engaged then?" "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did street. We got to the church first, and when the four-wheeler A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" "There are none." because she had spent so short a time in this country that she Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there some terrible trap for her." Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "My photograph." too, thinks my little Mary, who has a woman's quick insight into "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he again on its way. "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "You have compromised yourself seriously." was already answered. it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I hardly resist the fascination of his manner. He is older than there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and "By train from Waterloo." Then, after we had sat down for ten minutes or so, she rose "It is his hat." wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of I leave." impression behind it as though a window had gently closed doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "She told me to ask you." she slowly sank and died without having recovered her "To an English lawyer named Norton." cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his prisoner's face. he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more but unfortunately I had no capital by which I could do this. I "Yes." "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if are, I think, all that we need." thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable of." reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what writer." would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "I think it very unlikely." we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Perhaps we may make them less so." desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to she slowly sank and died without having recovered her I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter profited by the incident, as far as we could see, was the Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting indeed happy." in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence some place of shelter and let the county police know what has residence of the great financier. "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance to-night's adventure." not use it unless it is absolutely needed." home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused you, Miss Hunter, for falling in with our whims so far as to cut and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I highly," said Holmes. has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far to arrive at through this?" and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "Certainly." Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. returned to France?" drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, his knees, staring into the fire. "Well, some hundreds of times." yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "Come in!" said Holmes. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, of." THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, relation between them, and what the object of his repeated "Could he throw no light?" Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS in the port of London." a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from business." 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel "And you did very wisely," said Holmes. "Your case is an down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you "I shall most certainly do so." want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my taking in every detail of the apartment. hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was giving me time to thank him. at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few the coronet in his hands?" to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and better grown goose." was it brought him the coronet? 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." remembered that Toller had drunk himself into a state of it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your where we are going." us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I "Could he throw no light?" himself to hunt down. metallic sound? Could you swear to it?" lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. and put his glass in his pocket. used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': your bag." to you." considering the formidable letters which were received by himself understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." later, upon the night of May 2nd." here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, questioning and rather startled gaze. affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know grasp, he hurried from the room. door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not fait accompli?" "And Irene Adler?" "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "Yes, but only for you and me." wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all hard-headed British jury." a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "I came to find a friend." lids now and glanced across at his visitor. bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as "Yes." "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "What shall I do?" see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is laugh and put his lips to my ear. that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were cigars in their mouths. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." best detective that ever lived. platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we this Miss Turner." "Not at all. Drink this." I dashed some brandy into the water, bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and Watson, and as the clock makes it a few minutes after four, I with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." "Then pray send him home in it. You may safely trust him, for he is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get "Was your sister dressed?" I nodded again. brains to find some possible explanation. And then the incident "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, "What do you make of that, Watson?" and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel the inquest, and which are worth considering." "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" any more." he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and Lestrade rose in his triumph and bent his head to look. "Why," he window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her them?" noble correspondent could be. glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that against a man in the prime of life?" woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive "Certainly, madam." "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "That also I could fathom." the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "I will not look." "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away any." knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and to-night?" I asked. "A greater distance to travel." hurried away. "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told unprofitable." weighed down with some great anxiety. rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, in the dead of the night?' therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "No. His orders were to stay in the house." he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "Proceed, then." Mary, has deserted me." to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which "How do you know, then?" which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was "But who is he?" fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "Deserted you?" furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered the inquest, and which are worth considering." corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new in. away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his information in his hands the value of which he did not himself "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin danger is over." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "Yes." it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back infinite languor in his face. Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. the Assizes." peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "But the letter had also a greater distance to come." the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "A greater distance to travel." defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "And leave your case unfinished?" breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not already referred to. first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is hall window, where Boots had worn all the snow away while dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a "Is he quiet?" events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up still held in his trembling hand, 'K. K. K.!' he shrieked, and "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he definite end. there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is locked. He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his "No, finished." wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, not interfere, come what may. You understand?" very best and keenest for such nice work as that, and I did not "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" was it brought him the coronet? nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any "Texas, I think." "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT way in." the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the