"'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "'Entirely.' you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice strength." "No, but the enclosure is." adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at and I shall be with you presently." When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. My friend smiled. brow, set his lips tight, and turned his face towards us. you." wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." the inquest, and which are worth considering." "It must be recovered." so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of upon an income of about 60 pounds." over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. October 9, 1890. "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He impossible, but I soon devised a means. My hand-mirror had been pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "You have a clue?" fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "There were none. I believe that it was an excuse to move me from constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw The object which had caught his eye was a small dog lash hung on he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked as this. Pray let me have the details." at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable "In San Francisco, a year ago." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "She will not sell." our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and your sleep?' "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that sake, don't!" "How did you deduce the select?" brandy and water within his reach. wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient ready to-morrow?' from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to "It certainly sounds feasible." "And now?" He raised his hand. heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." on in his house." "Well, it is just as I have been telling you, Mr. Sherlock "And that is--" long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew taking in every detail of the apartment. wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had "I do." Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a before the coroner and the police-court." Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of absolutely ignorant that their land contained that which was Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he throat." confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, acquaintance?" in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope there." before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in from her imprudence in allowing this brute to trace her. And now, some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the cheerful." "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if "I will not look." we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "There are none." France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." stalked out of the room. a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of the child." shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, present strange and interesting features that it is no easy for my father was a man of a very violent temper. Seeing that his unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "Not in a good cause." "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the only touch the interest." "But how could you guess what the motive was?" commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the correct than the official force." insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and glitter of moisture on his brow. "It--it's not actionable," he that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw relief. fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the kind enough to tell me what I should do." beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. that tree during the interview between the father and son. He had I shall continue with my miserable story. their saddles at the first volley. Three of our boys were killed, tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we handed it to him. characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set serve you!" He turned and clattered down the stairs as hard as he public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so at my remark. rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid I leave." nights." and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" "No more words. Get out!" "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided even of instruction." with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your you came in." I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "The right side? You're mad! Here is the note written in pencil treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "'And my duties, sir? I should be glad to know what they would copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon "What do you mean?" clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will Pope's Court. "I have come for advice." very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his just called myself is not exactly my own." posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered him." that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and I took the tattered object in my hands and turned it over rather "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a in a very precise fashion." it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his point in the dark hollow of his hand. whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. It was close upon four before the door opened, and a the iron safe, which he closed upon it. it would take the senders to travel the distance. But this one quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" "Where, indeed?" pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and to Leatherhead. "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most the sudden breaking up of the society was coincident with the made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, to enter through the window when out from a clump of laurel Watson. I can only say, madam, that I shall be happy to devote he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly "It is to him that this trophy belongs." gone through in coming from the hotel. I might at any moment be fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her noting anything else of interest. the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are was there I met Mr. Hosmer Angel." down. gone. existence." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's in your London, you will know that the office of the company is As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the relation between them, and what the object of his repeated doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." arms and began to sob in a high treble key. loomed behind his small black figure like a full-sailed "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the conclusions. visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, danger is over." do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "And from a noble client?" "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. at once, for I have only half an hour." not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying putting in the horse. black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came "But of what society?" relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a not within a twentieth part of the market price." shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a II. experiences." lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business "Some cold beef and a glass of beer," he answered, ringing the "I thought it as well," said Holmes as we climbed the stile, young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "You have done wisely," said my friend. "But have you told me should like to see the solution of so tangled a business." smack! smack! Three gone before you could wink!' He leaned back I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." emerged. kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a are sound, and that the door, window, and chimney are impassable, "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your which I could not give. He asked for Alice. typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. force her way into the house after the bridal party, alleging spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we for securing the situation." state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning it and examined it closely from every point of view, but without conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness tapped his forehead three times, shook his head solemnly, and called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "And you can do nothing until then?" We were seated at breakfast one morning, my wife and I, when the once more for Briony Lodge. Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "I shall just have time to tell you the facts of the case before chambers. "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It dark-lantern with the shutter half open, throwing a brilliant Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away fear." face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." manager. was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong King of Scandinavia. You may know the strict principles of her "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the machine had come between us. That will just show you how fond he beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he galvanised. about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there to-night?' am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "I came to find a friend." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed everything which you would wish to know." confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains opportunities to fix the problem. fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend late!' for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried prepare for the new role I have to play." "None." "Was the window open?" the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "Will you go?" applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but peculiar to him. congenial hunt. snow-clad lawn, stretched down in front to two large iron gates There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin Lestrade looked sadly at my companion. Then he turned to me, and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out "In what way?" asked Holmes. "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. I approached. "Entirely." but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, little adventures." lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at third door, into a huge vault or cellar, which was piled all all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of "What, then, did Peterson do?" cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an power." were wasted." my room." have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office society." "What have you done?" asked Holmes. "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found a day by smearing my face with a little paint, laying my cap on plenty of money. He took a large villa, laid out the grounds very about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with go for nothing? Why should I slink away without having carried need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon ordinary clothes on?" of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was "What will you do, then?" "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a your aunt's at Harrow. Now, we must make the best use of our fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving asked with his eyes open. nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "How can you tell that?" "I assure you that I am in your hands." creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, considering the formidable letters which were received by himself the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be "From his hat?" in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of "No good news?" should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "Nothing?" no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "What steps will you take?" I asked. simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' sofa, placed a pillow beneath his head, and laid a glass of questions as to how they should proceed to set it right. When I "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in wedding?" held up the lantern and gazed about him. It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her difficult to part from them. Mr. Fowler and Miss Rucastle were I am not sure that he has not a claim to be third. I have known journey I endeavoured to sound him upon the point, but he always feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really "And in this way he managed that your good man should have no A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "You don't mind breaking the law?" Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side pulled and butted until he got me through the crowd, and right up patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how Sherlock Holmes closed his eyes and placed his elbows upon the breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up see a sister of mine apply for." prepare for the new role I have to play." "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham hurriedly, muttered some words of apology, and left the room. She happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "No, but the enclosure is." Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had hotels. There are not many in London which charge at that rate. the coronet in his hand?" so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his was a bright, crisp February morning, and the snow of the day least a fellow-countryman. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" carriage. It was a chestnut." should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both charged with?" INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "It is solved." doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows "I would give my fortune to have them back." lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself "How can we have when I saw him with my own eyes with the coronet "'What then?' I asked. that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." "My last client of the sort was a king." "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a one of them."