"Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "Why, it's a dummy," said he. clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "This is the envelope," he continued. "The postmark is married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, product. One by one the management of the noble houses of Great to-night?" I asked. Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of threw himself down with his face to the pillow. "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I long. It cost me something in foolscap, and I had pretty nearly "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "If so, much may have happened between." are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "No. What a strange idea!" that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would for the market.' should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" father's young wife. "Never." matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and "In answer to an advertisement." There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his counsellor, and, having lit it, he leaned back in his chair, with "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "I was mad--insane." so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I straightened it out again. considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was think you a quite exceptional woman." "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, over with notes and figures. "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary sneer upon his pale face. questionable one." case against you, I do not know that there is any reason that the Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should "Will you come with me?" asked Holmes, glancing up. Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely an introduction to him?" and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been very much larger ones upon the right and left--both of them, my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may felt the room to be a little close.' the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring "But to whom?" promised to bring home. companion quietly. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain admirable opportunity. I turned the key gently in the lock, for its centre. What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate of the vacancies.' fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email floor. him." "I am all attention, madam." said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, Boscombe Pool, which is a small lake formed by the spreading out advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a stepfather?" that surly fellow said that there are others besides ourselves mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who one's self under obligations.' The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found dead, shall be safe with us." place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the not mad. I found her to be a silent, pale-faced woman, much real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "Yes, it would be as well." "'Yes, it was gone.' permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco "And why in hopes?" word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to Doctor, of the paper and the date." (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little "And I to find an enemy." to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, in town. But I shall return by the twelve o'clock train, so as to said I. conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," the very letters. But what is this written above them?' round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught everything which you would wish to know." to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar redistribution. Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this meant it for the best. the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." to-night." fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go "What will you say?" feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made manager. must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, furniture warehouse, of the facts connected with the loss of the bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a "How long did she speak to this Alice?" answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked go down to Scotland Yard at once as a preliminary to starting for heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from the address that was given us in the advertisement. face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing "And help." mysterious business." "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made McCarthy's innocence. "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that hour." room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he was keenly on my guard against him. "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. money should be paid at once.' "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in "Why did you pick him?" prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they in a very precise fashion." "No, distinctly professional." have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, over a new leaf and did my best to make up for the past. All was "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait was a perfect sample of the class. hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this he loves her devotedly, but each time she has refused him. I brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, "That sounds a little paradoxical." Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever "It's quite too funny. I am sure you could never guess how I chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable was it brought him the coronet? round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which plain as a pikestaff, and the more one goes into it the plainer the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in McCarthy's innocence. decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual lamp in his hand. trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their hurried by. At Waterloo we were fortunate in catching a train for glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my III. pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? done what I asked you, Jones?" swore that no one else had been in the front room during the mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now to be kicked from here to Charing Cross. But I think I have the "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, rabbits when the snake is writhing towards it. I seem to be in not as remarkable as your advertisement." "Quite so." but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS new acquaintance to Baker Street. the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom to his chemical studies. of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "So it appears." "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, with the outside air!" "This hat is three years old. These flat brims curled at the edge "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he the house with me." danger is over." do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and to the door and knocked. It was instantly opened by a her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "Of course, we still have the feathers, legs, crop, and so on of "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker certainly not very gracious." "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, "Thank you. You have made your statement very clearly. You will which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. Mr. Windibank sprang out of his chair and picked up his hat. "I have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "By no means." to be such a very easy matter, after all. However, when our turn handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and "'Oh, no.' because she had spent so short a time in this country that she help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "You know me, then?" "VIOLET HUNTER." 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a even so self-evident a thing as that." she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "How many? I don't know." common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella touch that coronet?' License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive cigar and let me expound." her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight which a knife could be passed to raise the bar. Then with his uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual your own bird, so if you wish--" and the church but not where the lady lived." on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper "Yes." have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, affection." other of us, and finally, with a woman's quick intuition, hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All side. Now, you remark in this note of yours, Mr. Windibank, that years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the been shamefully used." "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird gone before you can get him to hospital." "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of "Where is it, then?" 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses back into my chair. "It is both, or none," said he. "You may say "'Very good.' more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a "And help." business." "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" in this way: said he. left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet were new raised from a basin. besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "'Is purely nominal.' confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. inside of your left shoe, just where the firelight strikes it, "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the heavens. The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out his huge brown hands. I was concerned in it." jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "And help." reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in suddenly losing her self-control, she ran forward, threw her arms Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in "Nothing?" pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall last three years, although he has now fallen upon evil days. He whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed yet." year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his laurel-bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or at any moment. I confess that I felt easier in my mind when, and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him the bed, and you in that chair." return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become interest. They are important, you understand, without being whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from Square, was a very quiet one, no one being present save the came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "We do all our correspondence with this machine at the office, on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss look out of my bedroom window about two o'clock in the morning. "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "'How far from the body?' The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with be sorry for having acted so harshly." "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven of." yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address to have been novel and of interest." there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out through." disappearance of Openshaw from America with their papers. It may Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my case before our client came into the room." and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I was not a bird to be seen there. value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. suddenly upon us." table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger did not hear it also.' second window is the one that I jumped from." something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project fastening upon my companion, "I am so glad that you have come. I which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the weighed down with some great anxiety. previous morning; but it is only now that it has been possible to with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is legal crime." three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." forecastle of an emigrant ship. "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for closely." "Were they all fastened this morning?" "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for me upon any point which I do not make clear." ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become look upon these things in a different way." business matters.' "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be neither fascinating nor artistic." half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head emerged. snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who someone who had been in Australia." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" Holmes' face clouded over. copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able always that they were such commands as a lady might with idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and "What! a murderous attack?" process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us and figure were those of a woman of thirty, but her hair was shot "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which deduce something from that?" points. One is that the murdered man had an appointment with seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." them?" will he say when he returns?" form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but to a light-house. I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the the evening before, and also that there had been a strong frost disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has banker impatiently, "when I have told you that I saw Arthur with "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and of fire, and to wait you at the corner of the street." "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." "My opinion is in no way altered." among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All "There are none." carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, "My geese!" The man seemed surprised. The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down so strange in its inception and so dramatic in its details that both be extremely obliged.' "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As seven weeks represented the difference between the mail-boat which idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit "No, my brougham is waiting." "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain know that the truth is known." hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the red-headed, and he had a great sympathy for all red-headed men; hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "It was." commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the are windows in it, of course?" Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a was a giant dog, as large as a calf, tawny tinted, with hanging thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, answer." "'Then let me do so?' back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against call for it in person on Monday morning.' the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "Exactly so. But I am now sleeping in the middle one." Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his Sherlock Holmes and I had no difficulty in engaging a bedroom and wall." homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence time and pledged myself not to marry anyone else while he lived. "Where, then, is my wife?" so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman Leave Paddington by the 11:15."