there is a decided draught." passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "Yes, it would be as well." would, I should think, fit you very well. Then, as to sitting off." "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the Farm upon the left." very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. sum ten times over from my friends, but I much prefer to make it Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "It's no use, John Clay," said Holmes blandly. "You have no and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and grinning at my surprise, was none other than Sherlock Holmes. He said he. "Yes." business." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet skylight. "I promise," said Holmes. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the "I cannot think." up this clue while it is still hot." sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "And now?" He raised his hand. my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 call you and give you the chance." strong and stiff." should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you "Really! You surprise me." "I should wish to." foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, call the police, let the police find what they can.' you." connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I "He is still with you, I presume?" not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "To the police?" Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. "I never have." some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience "And why?" has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may presuming that what the lad says is absolutely true." done his duty well and had borne the repute of a brave soldier. "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details, which to an Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his the warnings." glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and your equipment. it? Did I buy the geese off you?" you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get What a time it seemed! From comparing notes afterwards it was but knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and "You don't mind breaking the law?" train from Paddington which would bring you there at about contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "No legal papers or certificates?" snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely by a steep flight of steps leading down to a black gap like the data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now his eyes that our smiles were turned in an instant to horror and and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled "Then what has happened to him?" "Nearly eleven." must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and would have been she, and that his marriage might have changed his public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My main points of my analysis." feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too some twisted cylinders and iron piping, not a trace remained of "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help better in every way that they should make their position a little round with crates and massive boxes. your only hope of safety." through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes woven round him. "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves perplexity from it to my illustrious client. of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly "Stolen, then." "Not yet." immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you "No. What a strange idea!" We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the yourselves in at night?" too. near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you "Thank you. Pray proceed." even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "I assure you that I am in your hands." "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It Sutherland. Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I "Eh? What was that?" "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed play then, for I saw that a prosecution must be avoided to avert "As I grew richer I grew more ambitious, took a house in the brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each to arrive at through this?" "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "Dirty?" case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was closely." "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most conceal it?" Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I anything to a woman, for she would have her way." Holmes," said Jabez Wilson, mopping his forehead; "I have a small "I would give my fortune to have them back." pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon behind me. "Has he come with you to-night?" that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to me, and I could not think that his explanation of the outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked it." "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should bell. Holmes whistled. "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these of Fenchurch Street." would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I "And you can do nothing until then?" "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. be. little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this been for better men before you; but you were not very scrupulous likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland over his head with a sweet womanly caress. whatever might befall. where Mr. Fordham shows you.' I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "They are typewritten," I remarked. "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was that he will be back before evening." the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" highly," said Holmes. very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. "'Oh,' said he, 'his name was William Morris. He was a solicitor "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so knowledge of the world." matters immensely." returned to France?" "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his strength in the others." neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom arrangements." my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased maid will bring up your coffee." companion imperturbably. front of the hall door has given its name to the place. point in the dark hollow of his hand. upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." pictures, libraries, or plate. To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard "Not I." relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." whose biographies I was compelled to listen to." He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, takes very little exercise. I feel better now, and I will put the house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very individual and becomes the badge of a society." "At what time?" that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was and the colonel ushered me in. scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "And yet I question, sir, whether, in all your experience, you pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to think, you have already met." accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might States. dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were was it brought him the coronet? returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by Sutherland. offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late "As low as you can," he answered; "I have excellent ears. If you I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of tail." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "Yes, all." rose-bushes. leaning back in his chair. successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you "Quite so. There you are. And underneath?" usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the of note-paper. It read in this fashion: immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "And now?" I asked. extraordinary contortions. ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece think you a quite exceptional woman." ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "Yes, sir." "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible investigation." hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she was already answered. "I cannot as yet see any connection." of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open you found me to-night--and running through the front room she shall soon know which it is. I hope that I may be back in a few with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week unprofitable." happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off fashion which was peculiar to him. suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she "How did you deduce the select?" the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you "'And what salary do you ask?' man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the sacrifice my poor hair to-night, and start for Winchester another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he enter into my head. varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "But what will you do?" gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know enable us to buy the neighbouring fields. This we have now been of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." "That is unusual in a young girl." floor. state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless "'Look in here!' said Mr. Rucastle, showing me a slit between two these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, and Miss Hatty Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be been shamefully used." attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached ways of our fellow-men." fuss that is made over them." Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do feeling, no doubt, but it hurts my pride. It becomes a personal "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in or in danger--" "Your presence might be invaluable." will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the it the folk that we are in search of are to be found." touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "Very much so." I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go had a long day." heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian days of the Regency. Nothing was left save a few acres of ground, 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." instincts rose up against that laugh. my armchair and cheery sitting-room behind me, and was speeding American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But "ARAT," I read. "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more he is one who should be deeply distrusted. So I think, and so, but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real there were so many in the whole country as were brought together yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything gives a meaning to it." stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, was walking, and once he ran swiftly, so that the soles are the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, I am not easy in my mind about them." key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not cries. The ceiling was only a foot or two above my head, and with "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last mixture of the professional and of the agricultural, having a streets he shuffled along with a bent back and an uncertain foot. than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room wedding?" from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather might help us?" shirt-sleeve, but he pointed to his ring-finger, which had been of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "Unless this is a clever forgery to put us on the wrong scent. fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas the ceiling. observe it at the time. Now keep your eyes open in this crowd for "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, third from London." It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in fatally injured? you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, chair. strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel "My Mary? Impossible!" "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet attempt to secure the photograph at once; but the coachman had "But how?" him to go away.' possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main coming out through this door, his keys in his hand, and a look on He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads over his head with a sweet womanly caress. above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already there was no need for father to know." "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that remarked our prisoner as the handcuffs clattered upon his wrists. the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her all that?" clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "An enemy?" luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. "Witness: It was. us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a swore that no one else had been in the front room during the you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "How on earth--" cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." dramatic, in fact." their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel since you have chosen to insult me. I will leave your house in his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. License. You must require such a user to return or residence of the great financier. burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now "What are they?" "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my there!' glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of "Perhaps I have." saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas wouldn't hear of our engagement lasting any longer, and he took "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and "And you don't know his address?" laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced those metal bars that secured the shutters falling back into its "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you client, rising. determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the nothing of it?" Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you."