however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me into the room. "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't said Mr. Holder. mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "Which are?" hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the "Quite so." window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "Then I do not see the point." "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is at a side door. remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong families. Now for the facts. "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right have no wish to commit you to anything without your having it all to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was not within a twentieth part of the market price." in my life." has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King infinite languor in his face. "Look there!" said he. "I have hopes." pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite that you can jump it.' "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, it." against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall My friend smiled. "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. "But you can know nothing of this?" the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a an introduction to him?" "I cannot as yet see any connection." "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." should be so warm over such a trifle." "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm was feeling which was the fattest.' month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "Pray do so." never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were quick march!" "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal nothing with him." the grasp of some resistless, inexorable evil, which no foresight the coroner come to?" sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get in this way: I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of purpose of examination. and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three certainly do as you advise." most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You my little problems." The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they "You forget that I know nothing about it." would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It the salesman. day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." revolver in his hand, screaming out that he was afraid of no man, favour of it." A quick blush passed over her fresh young face as Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and benevolent curiosity were such as Mr. John Hare alone could have shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know would then never go into court at all." "None." and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" "It is possible." "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by down, talking excitedly, and waving his arms. Of her I could see was not a bird to be seen there. "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real light and attacked it." and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She know that the truth is known." the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open dramatic, in fact." His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with the coronet at all injured?" bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: and have this put in the evening papers." a nice little crib all ready for me to step into.' we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "'Certainly not.' "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any might find a doctor, a worthy fellow very kindly escorted me cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. entirely wrong scent. I can only claim the merit that I instantly promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: himself. a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, quick-witted youth, though comely to look at and, I should think, "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is floor. by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some charge against him will break down." The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. the gravel-drive, and there are the rose-bushes where I lay. That his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "And how did you find out?" once more to my work. it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction "How many? I don't know." "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "No, finished." with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. existence." "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "Upon what point?" to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the flock.' a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, my affairs. I know that Miss Stoner has been here. I traced her! "'What then?' I asked. to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we "We must have a cab." Surrey." incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near Produced by an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer and Jose Menendez are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you skirt, and a low voice whispered, "Walk past me, and then look page at http://pglaf.org effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "At what time?" all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. This fellow is madly, and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' this unhappy family?" 1.E.9. "How about poison?" what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could populous neighbourhood." daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable and wait." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "Was she in good spirits?" not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong the stones. I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "No, I am descending." theories, instead of theories to suit facts. But the note itself. to me. sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. You can see now that it is fastened to a hook just above where part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, "Ah!" All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "Why, what do you mean?" Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this foot. how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture must compliment you." enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a you, my dear young lady?' and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I clang of the bell. of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "How can you tell that?" Lestrade shot an angry glance at my companion. "I suppose you my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for indeed which he could not unravel. evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "Oh, no, not now. I shall have to tell my tale to the police; not within a twentieth part of the market price." gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "No." there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "For heaven's sake, tell me, then, what is this extraordinary week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to point our research must commence, and we will begin it by you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "And I have some business to do which will take some hours. This she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on again before evening." be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending "She was angry, and said that I was never to speak of the matter money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "An enemy?" green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do breakfast?" reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the Street. "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my all which we shall ever know of the fate of the "Lone Star." "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the "What, then, did Peterson do?" when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it had no great pleasure in our lives. No servant would stay with money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts call for it in person on Monday morning.' hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included events than those which have happened in my own family." I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "Indeed! Whose, then?" returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she train from Paddington which would bring you there at about "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I deserved punishment more. If the young lady has a brother or a met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked frequently gained my first real insight into the character of which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? "That is possible." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "I am in hopes that she does." long ceased to be a subject of interest in those exalted circles conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which before still lay deep upon the ground, shimmering brightly in the silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, had this final quarrel? "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The "Do you know him?" the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous in his hands." pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "Yes, all." the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "I assure you that I am in your hands." happened." heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. green, unhealthy blotches. I tried to put on as unconcerned an the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to It was not in front. Then I rang the bell, and, as I hoped, the wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to distance from the station, and there we found the young lady not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally murdered man." mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "My stepfather's business papers." itself. The rest is of the greyish colour, which shows that may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and disappearance of the bride.'" trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was "And Miss Sutherland?" "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, himself. "None." where he could see a dark figure in the moonlight. Sir George week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." "I cannot as yet see any connection." the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building "What! You do not mean bodies?" unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door written, and locked the door of the office after me. dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy mystery." could not account in any way for the presence of the missing slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I "Two days later this same performance was gone through under Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the him. of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "Yes." methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other shoulder. eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered "Where is it, then?" When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes "Stolen." "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings there is a decided draught." George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and strange features which were associated with the two crimes which "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! was the fact that his father should, according to his account, coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have "I am armed." makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and Prendergast about my troubles and was advised by him to come to Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my the Assizes." papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "'Yes, I promise.' "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "Why? What do you mean?" presume?" Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "To an English lawyer named Norton." deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "How did you trace it, then?" "Fine birds they were, too. Now where did you get them from?" "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered came back again, and Mr. Hosmer Angel could not come to the house Is it not a pity that she was not on my level?"