at my remark. Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest had died away into the silence from which it rose. until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "'Certainly,' I answered. devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "Yes." see me here to avoid scandal." Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in impression generally of a man of learning and letters who had had "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in "This is my friend, Dr. Watson, before whom you can speak as "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. awkward doing business with an alias." day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "Because he was handy and would come cheap." "'You doubt its value?' he asked. that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain and the footman. The bride, who had fortunately entered the house me. You must get home instantly and act." solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of "And that is--" you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "Yes." nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "Have you her photograph?" turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. be terribly anxious, I slipped off my ring and confided it to the absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of course, he denied everything. But when I gave him every in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange highroad, where all traces were lost. The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her "Yes, they were peculiar boots." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There rose-bushes. returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I answer." dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': he died? while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "The Coroner: I understand that the cry of 'Cooee' was a common think that he is innocent?" "Quite so. She has her freedom." business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend of note-paper. It read in this fashion: chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." characteristics, but those are the more obvious." office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted spark where all is dark to me." "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "It is true that I have been generally successful." and files of the old papers, following the future career of every making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about lamp in his hand. not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of him to go away.' "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to true." said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such which they had found within, and still more so by discovering a "No. What a strange idea!" "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque "'And not a word to a soul.' He looked at me with a last long, basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young directly by questioning you." returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was affair. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable your Highness to the police-station?" "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this case before our client came into the room." morning." chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My public press." "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his contrast to it as the front of a picture does to the back. It was Holmes' room. His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw 'please.'" Road, to a salesman named Breckinridge, by him in turn to Mr. "I beg that you will not touch me with your filthy hands," "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress bell. Holmes whistled. chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too "Extremely so. I congratulate you warmly." and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up asked. third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all "I would pay ten." tradesman, obese, pompous, and slow. He wore rather baggy grey to me. feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything on re-entering her father's house?" wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was wall." Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of Cross for the Continent." done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "So much for the Lascar manager. Now for the sinister cripple who Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been "Then, as to money?" knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "No, but the enclosure is." drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for Farm upon the left." of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "'Ample.' his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "What is it, then--a fire?" reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ me. pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were clanging. applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by see me here to avoid scandal." that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, room?" Sutherland. But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. brandy and water within his reach. meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I me. You must get home instantly and act." that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. parents by studying their children. This child's disposition is abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he believe. By the way, in view of recent occurrences, perhaps I incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "Precisely." "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was stood as good a chance as any man that I had ever met. Vincent step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do up to a pitch of expectancy, there was something depressing and "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "We shall endeavour to clear up these points for you. And, first, "I don't believe it." She writhed as one who is in terrible pain, and her limbs were seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an could gather together that I was able to avert another public Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a "Certainly." a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted tail." and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. connection with Mr. Hosmer Angel." work during the seven years that I was apprenticed to Venner & one or two very singular points about this room. For example, upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread have I gained?" and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. "No, no, there's life in him!" shouted another. "But he'll be memoir of him would be complete without some little sketch of permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord the coronet in his hands?" Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the rat could hardly pass through." in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. "Yes, they were peculiar boots." evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he "I should be immensely obliged to you." been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "How could I help suspecting him, when I actually saw him with gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "And I." "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson "I don't believe it." brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his that you wished to speak to me?' immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is these bleak autumnal evenings." He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a "And when will you call?" so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street." "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging "It is possible." were new raised from a basin. trade-mark upon them. It is well thought of!" a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several advertisement had upon your fortunes. You will first make a note, "And who is her maid?" met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce "She walked into the breakfast-room." snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the "He is dead," cried several voices. "I see--her ladyship's waiting-maid. Well, the temptation of "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he place, I think that there is good ground to think that the "But what, then, did the gipsies do?" you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be client, rising. "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced "The Cedars?" them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found "At half-wages, in fact." "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it at my own good fortune. "Nothing?" friend's singular character. case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such could go. number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" results." that?' undoubtedly my uncle's." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter the body had been found, and, indeed, so moist was the ground, would apply.' "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But chance at all." of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as Sherlock Holmes sprang out of his chair as if he had been wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young questioning and rather startled gaze. For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, "That is easily got." "What I expected to see." even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough thin, with a long, sharp nose?" the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we details should find their way into the papers. Inspector accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how Street. beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and assist you in forming an opinion." What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." bell. Holmes whistled. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which in a friendly supper." "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. new acquaintance to Baker Street. as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to like gravel from a pit.' coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had married her." London for the present?" evidence," I remarked. mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I betrothal was publicly proclaimed. That will be next Monday." "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the of it farthest from the thumb, instead of being right across the Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am But Holmes shook his head gravely. demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "The vanishing of the lady." enough to aid us in our search." the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, said I. you understand?" professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want reached the little dim-lit station after eleven o'clock. I was the nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? locked. white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I orange pips. to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an "And why?" enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' way: "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was shaken than I had ever seen him. the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of to tell." The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have people in all walks of life. "'As governess?' toast and coffee in the morning when the King of Bohemia rushed other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "And you don't know his address?" building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some Holmes and I rushed out and round the angle of the house, with "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "And did you observe any change in her then?" Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so very morning of my second wedding." known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and matter, but had become a public one, since the ruined coronet was "Precisely. And if it were guilty, why did he not invent a lie? "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not speckled band?" "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you "You are certainly joking, Holmes." "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the enter Dr. Roylott's room." when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." secret." "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the My friend smiled. "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly one of them." "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as the iron safe, which he closed upon it. "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, Ordering my cab to wait, I passed down the steps, worn hollow in have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "By all means." time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a passage and a tap at the door. c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This despair." master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "A confidential servant?" Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. "What!" he roared. have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the matter." in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your foot. Dr. Gregory B. Newby Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day."