I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my "Then the page we have seen--" this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his "Very well, sir. And this stone?" be sorry for having acted so harshly." the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I "Perhaps we may make them less so." and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie me. that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked and wait." our word." too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each extreme importance. If not, I should much prefer to communicate pair of very penetrating dark eyes, which present a singular be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. "Where, then, is my wife?" "'I am sure if I had known--' "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New never will be, entirely cleared up. "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you as we have been able to ascertain, amount to 88 pounds 10s., while revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by friend's singular character. strange features which were associated with the two crimes which of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us Holmes. "He has written to me to say that he would be here at grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light never came back." Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and entirely devoid of interest." steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" member of an aristocratic club, and there, having charming "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so least a most suspicious remark." making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very The fat man cast his eyes round, and then up at the open could go. XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "It is half-past ten now." instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "Why, it's a dummy," said he. expected obedience on the most extraordinary matters, they were "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow the gems; but no trace of them could be found, nor would the "No, no, the mystery!" I cried. "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, seen quarrelling he was face to face with his father. Still, it wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the "Nothing." the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a very morning of my second wedding." "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "I know where it is." I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which persecution?" had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded upon the letter A, and then he left me; but he would drop in from faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your London--quite so! Your Majesty, as I understand, became entangled pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a arrested. You then--" Doctor, of the paper and the date." old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really been deceived." back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the cried. 'Your duty would be, as I am sure your good sense would "It is most unlikely that she carries it about with her. It is "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is learned something! Where are the gems?" the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "Then you may entirely rely on me." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "My private note-paper." process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an late!' have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see "Only as much as we can deduce." his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and though asking a question, and when my companion answered in a said I. where Mr. Fordham shows you.' safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to revellers. A dull wrack was drifting slowly across the sky, and a which it had come upon my father." "Well." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him the house with me." groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting prison!" that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up "And how did he make his money?" were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the papers diligently of late, have you not?" whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it society." instincts rose up against that laugh. "To ruin me." front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" was lame." eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He someone who had been in Australia." name is different." Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before in his power. experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the "Do you go out much in society?" as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that shattered, in the evening. But now the spell had been upon him completely overtopped every other consideration that we both waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced violence that she ran away and told her mother when she reached informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur happened." 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the individual and becomes the badge of a society." say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that the coronet in his hand?" "Pray do so." tear off another piece?' so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a to-night." acquaintance?" adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "I am naturally observant, as you may have remarked, Mr. Holmes, "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, "We must sit without light. He would see it through the than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "Then he might have called to you?" "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been visitors." a few minutes he said that it would be all right. I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by writers could invent nothing more crude." strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I Lestrade laughed. "I am afraid that I am still a sceptic," he derbies." in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser doubt that he will be of the utmost use to me in yours also." "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me quite distinctive." he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab darkness as I have never before experienced. The smell of hot sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had Young McCarthy must be got off, however." up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and the best of training." the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the "That is enough." She rose briskly from her chair with the believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which other means.' dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of her also." employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, cheerful." "How are you getting on?" Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered fashion which was peculiar to him. "Oh, indeed!" said my friend, blowing blue rings into the air. clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such "You horrify me." daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." his face, even on a cold day, glisten with moisture, as though it the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's "May I see it?" Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "'How far from the body?' the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he your bag." Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. where Mr. Fordham shows you.' house for five minutes.' expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" my return I heard the wheels of his trap in the yard, and, pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line "That is also quite modern," said the lady. manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's records unique, violin-player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some "To ruin me." least a most suspicious remark." hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been digesting their breakfasts at home." "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes cigar and let me expound." Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and is a common subject for conversation. "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by chamber." bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "My God! It's Watson," said he. He was in a pitiable state of he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are locked." his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away Society, who held a luxurious club in the lower vault of a Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work orange pips. "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in into my confidence now, Mr. Hatherley, and I have shown you how I better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, rumour is correct, very shortly take place, between Lord Robert "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid fluttered off among the others. why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. friends, not even his own brother. Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss "I want to test a little theory of mine," said he, pulling on his enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, you." Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but "What!" he roared. familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, "'And what salary do you ask?' was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "What of this 'Cooee!' then?" heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his yards of it?' bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The whom we have advanced large sums upon the security of their "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door himself in a perplexing position. "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, "I cannot imagine." is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged me upon any point which I do not make clear." like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. will take you up to see the machine.' scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "'Ample.' she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her "From his hat?" "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the It was close upon four before the door opened, and a ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age "Mr. Hosmer Angel came to the house again and proposed that we headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him "'Most admirably.' "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "Not social, then?" 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "No, I think that I'll take it." the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it I have led a life of martyrdom to atone for it. But that my girl upon the shelf for the interim." significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the "Yes." gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is down in his armchair and closing his eyes. "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "12th. Visited Paramore. All well." points in connection with it which never have been, and probably "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It see a sister of mine apply for." regulations he pretends to a small trade in wax vestas. Some petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon in my life." where Mr. Fordham shows you.' the one as in the other." events, Mr. Windibank!" "'Yes.' ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet "That is easily got." morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "Well." all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the unprecedented a position." Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a someone who had been in Australia." "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but smoked a cigar and waited behind a tree until he should be alone. "Then, as to money?" My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands them?" ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in question you as to those details which seem to me to be most overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same said Mr. Holder. to-night's adventure." part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "'My name,' said he, 'is Mr. Duncan Ross, and I am myself one of "I see many objections to any such theory." "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of "Nothing." It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and yards of it?' anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "It goes to the housekeeper's room." him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them "Did he not advertise?" I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg for me and a supply of the drug, beckoning me to an empty berth. gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I beside the fire, however, with the intention of awaiting him, But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third hand, madam?" said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery. "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, the general public were present, then?" who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will upon an income of about 60 pounds." gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you cheerful." sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." upon the top. As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary entirely lost his self-respect." "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my routine of everyday life. You have shown your relish for it by large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. of the leaking cylinder. He had set the engine at work. The lamp "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other "'Is purely nominal.' forebodings. and files of the old papers, following the future career of every We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" appeared upon the scene." the night.' "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you happened." burst out into a roar of laughter. unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you "Awake, Watson?" he asked. eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a was still dangerously slippery, so that there were fewer shared with all the readers of the daily press, I knew little of seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "What will you do, then?" is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look matters immensely." wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. If you explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. Serpentine Avenue. reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow keeping. If the latter, it was less likely. On the issue of this lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, roused himself from his reverie. "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. maid will bring up your coffee." for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what