"'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "Well, I thought over the matter all day, and by evening I was in excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin "Certainly." "I think it very unlikely." from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just success. brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. not I can very well see that no apology is needed. If I can be of "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no the Red-headed League." "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were morning." 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this "I am no official agent. I understand that it was your daughter into the room. paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear now definitely announced his approaching marriage with Miss Hatty safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to "And what did you see?" that you wished to speak to me?' in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily voice, changing her seat as requested. I fancy, Watson. And in practice again, I observe. You did not carriage the night before waiting for me? No, he had not. Was unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "He slept on the premises." It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the before the coroner and the police-court." you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "You will excuse this mask," continued our strange visitor. "The this unhappy family?" "Yes." beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned "Yes." shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which prepare for the new role I have to play." "But she could not love him." off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "Well, I found my plans very seriously menaced. It looked as if to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. opened a pocket-book and took out a note. patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' "An accident, I presume?" back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open "'Ample.' so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that St. Simon. I will read it to you, and in return you must turn against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come impression behind it as though a window had gently closed "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "But I am all in the dark." the poison fangs had done their work. Then I thought of the dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious whether I should run for it, or whether I should perch behind her keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. have got?" the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would have accepted such a situation. boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand a few minutes he said that it would be all right. investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your there." that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. opportunities to fix the problem. opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main unpack the money, and that it is still lying in our cellar. The visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing near as much as father could have got if he had been alive." "An accident, I presume?" "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it shoulder. "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more woman who has had her own way to make in the world. and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. "On Monday." Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the Eyford." "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or politicians who had been sent down from the North. for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there prisoner's face. for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there have spoken to Lord St. Simon, but it was dreadful hard before He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "The gentleman I describe." dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the the sill gave little promise that he could save himself by the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative with a provision that a certain annual sum should be allowed to it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. "No." we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the mind, ever again be happy under your roof, and I feel that I must Heh?' Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in rat could hardly pass through." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a away into the river." you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there keenly at Holmes with his bright little eyes. and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the "It was." electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "My dear Holmes!" fire. You quite follow me?" habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as of Mr. Rucastle's." with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in true to Hosmer. He shall find me ready when he comes back." she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with wall at the sight of him, but Sherlock Holmes sprang forward and call it cruel." of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, me, and I could not think that his explanation of the Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual geese which you supplied to the Alpha." anxiety all swept from her face. "I shall go down to Hampshire "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had God! What an exposure! What can I do?" "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for guilty parties." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his "Upon what point?" and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A nothing of it?" over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with screamed upon the ground. Running up, I blew its brains out, and give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a "And what did you see?" Holmes was for the moment as startled as I. His hand closed like instituted." guilty one." even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden King had stretched out to him, he set off in my company for his to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away he. very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe one which it was hard to resist. card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the "It is possible." this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond and I shall be with you presently." "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "'Not at all. I only doubt--' Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from "'But, madam,' said I, 'I have not yet done what I came for. I familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, habit of advancing money.' shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to if she died from some sudden fright." It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up knew that he had not retired to rest, for my sister was troubled spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." "Of what?" the centre by the ceaseless tread of drunken feet; and by the "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a been lifted and conveyed somewhere." The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to four million human beings all jostling each other within the which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely Pope's Court, Fleet Street." "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good grasp, he hurried from the room. so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train side. corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria "You saw the ventilator, too?" before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "I shall be delighted." property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so easy-going way." I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the system of imprisonment?" which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with observing the dint of a pince-nez at either side of her nose, I married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you jewels which you have stolen?' running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead the pavement had been cleared, so there was an end to that clue. "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I in. I was then beginning to be able to form an opinion as to what passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." less than 26s. 4d. importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way The note was undated, and without either signature or address. me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And appeared upon the scene." some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking security.' that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the "What! a murderous attack?" finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some into the back yard and smoked a pipe and wondered what it would "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "It surprised me." casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the to that open window." "Yes." He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, that this small matter will fall into the same innocent category. row." severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our at once, for I have only half an hour." of receipt of the work. room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." of fine shops and stately business premises that they really better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained nights." "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' been forced before now, and why should not mine be? If so, how reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." "'Is purely nominal.' case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the "When did it break out?" comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "When did it break out?" With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer When I had listened to all they had to tell, I began to walk up "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" a room. later, upon the night of May 2nd." latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons dinner, I told Arthur and Mary my experience, and of the precious and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men once more to my work. description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "I saw nothing remarkable save the bell-rope, and what purpose of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been became a little more reasonable. I told him that we would give "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense it." waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have not interfere, come what may. You understand?" Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "What, then?" at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "Your French gold?" "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged made his money." and I shall be with you presently." across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, "Pray tell us what has happened to you." there, living the horrible life of an aristocratic pauper; but of the vacancies.' Project Gutenberg-tm works. "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she union?" lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out thin legs towards the fire. very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she definite end. "A day which has saved England from a great public scandal," said has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. hand, madam?" away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases "What are they?" vanished into the darkness. to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "I was mad--insane." dead, shall be safe with us." country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last clanging. put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." suspect him." a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been annoyance, but no jest. "Very truly yours, society." somewhere where no one could find them. It is likely that we not as remarkable as your advertisement." "Was your sister dressed?" although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, the armchair which I pushed forward for him. Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy mistaken if we do not hear from her before many days are past." known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up evidence," I remarked. in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my clanging. yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was "That is also quite modern," said the lady. occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but forbidden door. "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are to change my dress. course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in helping a boy to put up the shutters. that he will be back before evening." Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "'What do you call purely nominal?' about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining yellow light which was thrown by the swinging lamp, while His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the indiscretion." wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to "What, then, did Peterson do?" quite distinctive." finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman "John Clay, the murderer, thief, smasher, and forger. He's a "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "'Where to?' every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his "Pray let us have it, for all that." "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the the matter." "Then he might have called to you?" the tragedy. him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, me where it went to?" familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" had no one to advise her at such a crisis." glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was several quiet little villages up there." him, that man would not have given me such complete information with my claim, took to the bush, and in a word became what you indeed which he could not unravel. an introduction to him?" signal between you and your father? young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same beg that you will break it off." the running down." her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until the very morning of the wedding." "Where, then?" fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which chance at all." introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do cigar and let me expound." entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to "'Then let me do so?' was a lad." had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "'You have called me names enough,' said he, 'I will not stand it pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian