companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few brain must have something in it." owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. Holmes shot one of his keen, questioning glances at her. state of agitation, her face all drawn and grey, with restless the running down." fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of what I may call a really hard day's work." what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to one's self under obligations.' "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering depend upon my doing so.' Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. electronic works glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your everything which you would wish to know." Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do danger is over." "You forget that I know nothing about it." "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a "Terse and to the point," remarked Holmes, stretching his long, saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. happened." "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in is now desirous of getting those letters back." "Quite so." "You have it, sir, just as it happened." reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your Dr. Gregory B. Newby eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a "No, I think that I'll take it." "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "He said too much." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it with you?" the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for "Ample." very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. him to be an active member of the medical profession." flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in than usual, remarking before he started that he had two important to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding placed his cuttings. "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" shawl round me, and rushed into the corridor. As I opened my door dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the infinite languor in his face. weapon which will always secure me from any steps which he might little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "What has she been saying to you?" screamed the old man "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. future lives." room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "When did she vanish, then?" dead, shall be safe with us." "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then "Oh, no, sir. It is quite separate and was left me by my uncle The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "I have devised seven separate explanations, each of which would "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "No sign of it?" as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. when you have done it." son only caught the last two syllables. He was trying to utter Surrey." matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the "'My sole duties, then,' I asked, 'are to take charge of a single "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir lonely houses, each in its own fields, filled for the most part have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of eleven, a single bright light shone out right in front of us. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he Toller knows more about this matter than anyone else." 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a window, hand out the coronet to someone in the gloom, and then immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried "The best possible." "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of whatever might befall. sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or newly severed human thumb upon a window-sill of the second floor. with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of abstracted from the jewel-case of the Countess of Morcar the interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots knowledge of the world." it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" "You'll never persuade me to believe that." "Come in!" said Holmes. Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with fait accompli?" he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her more than thirty feet down. I clambered out upon the sill, but I have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" fall down and do a faint right there before the altar." "'Yes, but with my back towards it.' time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and the coronet at all injured?" some water from a caraffe. and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would works. "Yes." a good hundred miles off by now." had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" blows of some heavy and blunt weapon. The injuries were such as "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and awkward doing business with an alias." above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little Watson," he said cordially. constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The "Ha! that was unfortunate. Your wedding was arranged, then, for and the church but not where the lady lived." has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great confined to one day, and he had come back, twitching and see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been presented more singular features than that which was associated "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the to change my dress. dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' in the hope of finding them." although he wore some dark coat, such as he had started to town hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "'Ah, very well; then that quite settles the matter. It is a "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a hopeless attempt at recovering them." "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the seven years, that he was a widower, and that his only child by this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "Entirely." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story murdered man." window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. "To the police?" "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." him. hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we What do you deduce from it?" this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church yet." may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into "What then?" misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, indeed which he could not unravel. this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "'That would suit me very well,' said I. 'And the pay?' eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, voice. to me. Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing British peeress.'" confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he "It missed him, then?" supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "And what did you see?" "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project the ruddy-faced, white-aproned landlord. "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "How on earth--" whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of chair. the house with me." on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view been destroyed by Colonel Openshaw. For the rest, there was "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go front of the hall door has given its name to the place. thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a things are very often connected not with the larger but with the my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as electronic works our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as and do you conceal yourselves behind those. Then, when I flash a set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "Come in!" said he. "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "I have solved it." "To the police?" always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the middle-aged, has grizzled hair which he has had cut within the 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key Dr. Gregory B. Newby The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would were thick with the ice crystals. "I suppose," I remarked, "that, It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "Absolutely?" surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, and shall probably return to London by the evening train." foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very "And why in hopes?" "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "Witness: He mumbled a few words, but I could only catch some "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and sake, don't!" "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on later, upon the night of May 2nd." "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, vanished into the darkness. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel good deal. However, I must not sit gossiping here, but must get thought with a pained expression upon his face, as one who finds "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-coloured gaiters. affair. Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. that was all that caught the son's ear. Now from this double soul! here is her carriage at the door." "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all to affect your life." "'Most admirably.' frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the second window is the one that I jumped from." good-night and bustled off upon her way. you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? "That's no good." visitors." great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the strong and stiff." "I cannot say that I have." "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to closing the door. dimly lit street. "Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, are windows in it, of course?" their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "You were travelling in the States?" answered, smiling, "and the humbler are usually the more order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. him to go away.' cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was of my client. Lucy Parr, who had brought in the coffee, had, I am grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned "I am about to be married." unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. someone who had been in Australia." You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "Pray do so." this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it bare slabs of marble. there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three unbuttoned in the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little charged with?" even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but gone. abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical dates and names. of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking I nodded again. thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "Very well, sir. And this stone?" We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom stood on the top of it. same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are "Nor running a chance of arrest?" sparkled upon his finger. secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in "Entirely." the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "Ah!" saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, second window is the one that I jumped from." ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, was a lad." need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no "What!" he roared. A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own "In answer to an advertisement." "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I of your young ladies.' father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his daring than any effort of the imagination." gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" read it out to me." shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "Well, it is a possible supposition." "Yes, but only for you and me." "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "BALLARAT." bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. for the market.' "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with "Were there gipsies in the plantation at the time?" "Have you it here?" understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was where we are going." dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your "'Which dealer's?' This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to read over the extraordinary announcement. they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the stammered. cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street."