dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. these bleak autumnal evenings." for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough present." "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, I. read over the extraordinary announcement. there were so many in the whole country as were brought together The note was undated, and without either signature or address. horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in own family. "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish indiscretion." yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of way home, she seemed absurdly agitated over this trifling cause." "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "I am afraid that you will find it difficult." force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was only touch the interest." I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. threw any light upon the matter. One mistake had been made in not Munro.' until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, look dissatisfied." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' followed. "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 "Where, indeed?" very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw business." inquiry. I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a carriage. It was a chestnut." I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She newspaper selections." photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler IS you." "Well, it is a possible supposition." "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the strength of mind to control. was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, been anything against him. He had for years been known as a your sleep?' play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in But the inspector was mistaken, for those criminals were not the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to "This photograph!" "Then you may entirely rely on me." "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and simple cases which are so extremely difficult." succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter "How about poison?" he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our girl said." strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present "I cannot tell." "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a she might be summoned. fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case about here speaks of his kindness to him." "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to developed." "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, 1.E.9. "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the What do you deduce from it?" edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection of Bohemia, the singular experience of Miss Mary Sutherland, the "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "No, my brougham is waiting." hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried "No, sir, but the facts might be met speciously enough. Suppose these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass Having once made up my mind, you know the steps which I took in hands. "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." exquisite mouth. Holmes gazed long and earnestly at it. Then he people in all walks of life. "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "Then the page we have seen--" wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very once more. "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "I am following you closely," I answered. friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally Holmes. "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an could not have written that. It is the German who is so fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "We must have a cab." comes from the middle window." success. "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father Sherlock Holmes hailed a four-wheeler which was passing. "In that endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present Munro.' wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously invisible to me," I remarked. jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to showing my impatience. "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment held up the lantern and gazed about him. heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of hair?' "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a client, rising. "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" "May I see it?" here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, "Who by?" foot. really quite as much individuality as a man's handwriting. Unless "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." "But you were on a friendly footing?" "'Where to?' cigar and let me expound." used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so depend upon your compliance." glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." Countess of Morcar's?" my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and vivid flame-coloured tint. When I saw how many were waiting, I Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that in this way: that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, if you reach it in twenty minutes.' It was twenty-five minutes to one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, "Yes, I have one waiting." The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, me. form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the not within a twentieth part of the market price." it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "And now?" He raised his hand. best detective that ever lived. great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too gigantic client. usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up British peeress.'" may have an influence upon European history." heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences down. writing, and yet I know it well." natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never "Yes. He waved his hands." enough to gain.' He bowed me out of the room and I went home with of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to sooner or later she must fall a victim. "And how did you verify them?" could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such "Will you bet, then?" from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon "I assure you that I am in your hands." the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I http://www.gutenberg.net "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. best detective that ever lived. and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down already referred to. Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" Pope's Court, Fleet Street." sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "Why, it's a dummy," said he. turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent Dr. Gregory B. Newby "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal companion imperturbably. front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried the running down." extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the "It is true that I have been generally successful." troubles have been weighing upon his mind. description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. to go right on to Kilburn, where he lived, and take him into my would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the your room." erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying into her hand at the door and which lured her within their in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what I have it here in my museum." "What do you make of that, Watson?" perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to that, and I came down." English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less Lysander Stark had said that it was only seven miles, but I "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows "On the contrary, this is the right side." "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was "What then?" here." them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone when your master had gone out." to a light-house. records." held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we it." particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "That is easily got." quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary leather-leggings which he wore in deference to his rustic "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, along the entire front of the house, with three long windows prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "Texas, I think." Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "Not particularly." it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Oh, the cause is excellent!" John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was It may be so in this case, also." "Then the page we have seen--" while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. advice." Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm wooden shelf full of books, mostly of a technical character, an that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are asked. business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the his face. unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it a good hundred miles off by now." "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as "No, distinctly professional." the trough. By its light I saw that the black ceiling was coming Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "It goes to the housekeeper's room." The telegram which we eventually received came late one night drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when fatally injured? send you a wire. I put on my hat and cloak, went down to the there were so many in the whole country as were brought together my friend lashed so savagely. I could, however, see that his face skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I indeed happy." "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. http://gutenberg.net/license). "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as hedge close by the highroad, and just a little lower down was a pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would "'Then let me do so?' the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features appeal." the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar "How on earth--" was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the charged with?" should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled hurried away. "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were generous with you in money matters.' about. seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You that?' "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "'How far from the body?' "Showing that she had struck a light and looked about her when "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to was a lad." "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their emerged. father's place of business?" towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will front of me. "On the contrary, this is the right side." hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. said he. the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "It may not come to that," said Holmes. aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "'I have already given you my word.' his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and very morning of my second wedding." "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the companion imperturbably. "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is affair. Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not "He might." facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought "Ample." together. and all of them with the keenest interest. compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag "Where did he live, then?" "Stolen, then." "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "Yesterday." returning from some small jollification and was making his way Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were advice." our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; Lee, in the county of Kent." burst out into a roar of laughter. to call, for it was obvious that the matter should be pushed as the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I hurried away. and effective." landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of income of 250 pounds, in case of marriage. It is evident, daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable "I say it is." Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course astonishment. works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On 1.F. assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be three days at Bristol, and had only just returned upon the recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then paper in the air. "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had goes." License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" woven round him. When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which papers must be those that are destroyed.' "Not yet." heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I "By all means." gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "But not more so than I to find you." "Perhaps I have." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over nothing with him." inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should see it, for everyone who knows him will direct his attention to "Has he come with you to-night?" "'I have already given you my word.' never came back." Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "What is it?" felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "Very. But will he see it?" To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to best detective that ever lived. disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. over his head with a sweet womanly caress. breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "He slept on the premises." abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason "Yes, it would be as well." a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman "'Which dealer's?' step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you Munro.' "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both my room." I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be you want, then?'