relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of success. earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the we could define it," said he. "But at any time, day or night, a journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" down in his armchair and closing his eyes. a small bearded man in a grey suit, who seemed to be looking in that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, "That you are never beaten." least a most suspicious remark." in him." I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, "'And the work?' can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies distance from the station, and there we found the young lady "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water you. Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, of Horner, who struggled frantically, and protested his innocence "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any Count Von Kramm." heavily into it. temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards In the middle of the night he heard a soft tread pass his door, Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at been deceived." I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to ill-usage at the hands of fortune. It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "Yes, the wine-cellar." "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone turned up the outer edge of his upper lip, a bulldog chin, and a and your relations to her." "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately no time to be lonely, for within an hour there arrived a charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway "You are hungry," I remarked. Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me on the heaped-up edges of the foot-paths it still lay as white as at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King my excuses, escaped from the house. I hesitated whether to "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would bachelor.' down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in "In the cells." quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly bird I ate is country bred." neither fascinating nor artistic." "None." resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "And is that all?" "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "And I to find an enemy." "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and most important business. It is probable that he will be away all coat-tails." appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some you in your example." you." Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed surprise or anger would not be natural under the circumstances, shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from to have been novel and of interest." His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "You may not be aware that I have royal blood in my veins. Have no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the test if we have an answer to our advertisement." twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "Yesterday." Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to three of the beryls in it, was missing. he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all III. charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." to our visitor. "And now you must on no account lose another to fainting. I simply wish to hear your real, real opinion." black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or States. "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. whole matter to your consideration." my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" and the whole place is in a blaze." ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the "That is unusual in a young girl." dates and names. and glanced through. whereabouts. the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a "Pray be precise as to details," said he. look upon these things in a different way." bed dies. Does not that strike you?" "'That you may get away, or perhaps that you may conceal what you some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel half-mad with grief and rage. 'I shall have this matter probed to and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method woman." my friend's incisive reasoning. without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "Seven!" I answered. here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The John Swain, of St. Augustine. a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all "Oh, dear! That is very bad! Your Majesty has indeed committed an "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." same way with a gun under his arm. To the best of his belief, the in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid "But with no very good result," I remarked. "His conduct was entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs most lovely young women that I have ever seen in my life. Her "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very parents. Don't you see that the converse is equally valid. I have himself in a perplexing position. 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we against a man in the prime of life?" hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I the salesman. The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is politicians who had been sent down from the North. paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather "But what is it you wish?" The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I rose-bushes. "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to prison!" One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a Again a startled look came over the somewhat vacuous face of Miss an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door "Then I am your man." "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but interested on glancing down to observe that, though the boots cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the father's young wife. front of the hall door has given its name to the place. homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "Pray do so." companion. "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes memory. of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, "'I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each nature such as his. And yet there was but one woman to him, and way: possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was "Where to?" opened the door, and slipped through. asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the "Yes." they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most indeed happy." "On Monday." heavy and sharp instrument." always locked up. We found the brass box there, although its "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet our word." cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and your address. Oh, sir, do you not think that you could help me, With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home "What!" he roared. burst out into a roar of laughter. is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' "How can you tell that?" the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a as yours." presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your meant." troubles have been weighing upon his mind. weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, Sometimes I think that I am myself. And now--and now I am myself strolled up and down, glancing at them occasionally, Mr. Rucastle jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can "Was your sister dressed?" incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father of it with the greatest attention. "But she will refuse." "Sherlock Holmes, Esq. To be left till called for." My friend and it is currently reported that her dowry will run to "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and down the stairs together. We had hardly reached the hall when we "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would putting in the horse. that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner both be extremely obliged.' "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "And I." the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on simple cases which are so extremely difficult." The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "Kindly look her up in my index, Doctor," murmured Holmes without of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the "How are you getting on?" property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent during which he might have communicated with his friend the Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have "'Where to?' behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was "Absolutely?" Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the amused." acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no "From Hatherley Farm-house to the Boscombe Pool is a quarter of a It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "No good news?" "Could he throw no light?" reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are indiscretion." each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on prices, not more than 750 pounds. Each daughter can claim an the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said spare." "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "No, I had a dozen." "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was returning home. Obviously something had occurred during the though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His been with you?" Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It eavesdroppers?' for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after "But the mystery?" Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies have got?" the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "Well, there is at least a curious coincidence of dates. A "What!" he roared. was feeling which was the fattest.' "And it is--" "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention Eyford at 11:15.' Foundation hardly wander." wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, settle down they should do so as near each other as possible. each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return in the port of London." were burrowing for. I walked round the corner, saw the City and pressing in one house as in another. inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' security.' the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' key turn in the lock." hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a "I say that I have solved it." opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready quickly through a disagreeable task. "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." the very morning of the wedding." postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project few hundred pounds.' works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg charge against him will break down." Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "The King of Scandinavia." troubles have been weighing upon his mind. one or two very singular points about this room. For example, husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another like that before?" gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own photograph?" as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and brain must have something in it." "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie chemical work which was so dear to him. never came back." he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little that?' gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love you." 30 pounds, to say nothing of the minute knowledge which you have The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such crime. on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and "On Monday." and that he would see to anything that turned up. "Yes." "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "Ah!" said he, laying down his cup, "I feared as much. How was it suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, supper and then retire, for we may have a very busy day "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold call the police, let the police find what they can.' Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "'Certainly not. But why?' after following Holmes' example and slipping off my shoes, I annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we test if we have an answer to our advertisement." honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, to a more successful conclusion." or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon as this. Pray let me have the details." threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out We had the carriage to ourselves save for an immense litter of "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided client, rising. A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go "No." of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so "Very well, sir. And this stone?" 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever point our research must commence, and we will begin it by I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: thumb in the direction of the old hat--"but there are points in Edgeware Road. There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "How long I remained unconscious I cannot tell. It must have been watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked what the meaning of this extraordinary performance could possibly buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know certainly not very gracious." later, upon the night of May 2nd." of lichen upon the grey walls. The drawn blinds and the smokeless going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion "'Quite sure, dad.' "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed and Hampshire in the west. In the last century, however, four "I should be immensely obliged to you." "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "I can hardly explain to you how interested I am in this matter." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "I have seen the police." The salesman nodded and shot a questioning glance at my the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my roused himself from his reverie. observe, if you care to use my magnifying lens, that the fourteen "He said that you could solve anything." overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of "You're angry, Robert," said she. "Well, I guess you have every rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you cheerful." Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. "None." in our faces, and one yellow light twinkling in front of us in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "Do you go out much in society?" I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent to go into your room and bar your shutters?" As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the a hearty supper, drove to Paddington, and started off, having Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a "The man married a woman very much older than himself for her "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," "It is possible." and a shock of very red hair. road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. of all. I think that I have seen enough now, Miss Stoner, and for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all cry 'Cooee!' before seeing him. The other was his singular dying wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his "His face fell immediately. madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "'Oh, no.' even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come bell. Who could come to-night? Some friend of yours, perhaps?" light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, "And how have you succeeded?" preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the results." solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had to-night's adventure." apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort because she had spent so short a time in this country that she back to the agency and inquire whether the place was still open the station." Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist security.' "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "I cannot as yet see any connection." many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to