places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he thin, with a long, sharp nose?" in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings likely to be some crony of the landlady's." his face. together. have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had family have some of the more implacable spirits upon their track. carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring o'clock is it?" endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "Nothing?" running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you God! What an exposure! What can I do?" would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one will he say when he returns?" was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the own grounds. A stable-boy had run out to the horse's head, and you want, then?' years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "Precisely." boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the of such purity and radiance that it twinkled like an electric "But she will refuse." wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this "'Is to copy out the "Encyclopaedia Britannica." There is the first and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to get the tickets." "By the same brilliant reasoning, every man's body is to be found could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we nights." every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about locked. true." Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "At the wedding breakfast." "It is solved." I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "I thought of the fifty guineas, and of how very useful they Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds British peeress.'" than was visible to me." despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "You were travelling in the States?" until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his by the way, that it is extremely improbable that he has gas laid minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "But the mystery?" walking." common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating out, for she had been in the company of the bridegroom. Had she "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to village inn over there?" and a shock of very red hair. until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I you. Now," he said as he turned hungrily on the simple fare that "No, your secret lies in London. It is there that I shall seek With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I "Here?" so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "Yes, certainly." characteristics, but those are the more obvious." stalked out of the room. snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a within hail.' "By all means." think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two "What on earth can be the matter with him?" I asked. "He is "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from Where does the thing come from?' bachelor.' wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window "She walked into the breakfast-room." living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me which gave him a decidedly nautical appearance, and he carried a appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "Which are?" and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in without success. At last the little money which I had saved began "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "She told me to ask you." the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps Both could be saved if I could but silence that foul tongue. I chemical work which was so dear to him. Through the gloom one could dimly catch a glimpse of bodies lying Gutenberg-tm License. into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It "The Coroner: Did your father make any statement to you before quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual business." tie, his sympathetic smile, and general look of peering and red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his time." "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such existence." I left him then, still puffing at his black clay pipe, with the "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "When Mrs. Turner has brought in the tray I will make it clear to weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked me what he had done with the three missing stones. "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think The Boscombe Pool, which is a little reed-girt sheet of water unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I heard that I was about to be married, and, to tell the truth, the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, companion. left the country, and finally that C was visited, with, I fear, a from the brougham. questioning and rather startled gaze. came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who in the hope of finding them." "You are all wrong." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there "Always." "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I families. Now for the facts. child?' him. The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room "You see it, Watson?" he yelled. "You see it?" glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." and read, with intervals of note-taking and of meditation, until the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared take the flies, but not before." once more for Briony Lodge. "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. one of the states of the Union." together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. man. "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes garments, and there were no other traces of Mr. Neville St. severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my directors, with the result that you have seen." method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "'One of the most precious public possessions of the empire,' son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him meanly of me." with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was and at the signal to throw in this object, then to raise the cry "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "Your French gold?" ready to-morrow?' Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his "Nor running a chance of arrest?" papers must be those that are destroyed.' to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar business?" that I am arrested." cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "On Monday." "Who knows? Perhaps because he was so angry that you should 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" his only son, my stepfather, seeing that he must adapt himself to postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day few hundred pounds.' probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted get the tickets." "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. a question of cubic capacity," said he; "a man with so large a the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' particulars of my night's adventure, and I sprang to my feet with beside him, patted his hand and chatted with him in the easy, "Frankly, now!" she repeated, standing upon the rug and looking "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, "You will not go there first?" "The Cedars?" never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES *** occurred." matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own which on a three-legged wooden stool there sat a tall, thin old arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and "On your arm?" not come at once?" your hair. I assure you that it has not detracted in the tiniest the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are ladies' fancies must be consulted. And so you won't cut your "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' astonishment. bird I ate is country bred." "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." License. You must require such a user to return or "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable power." a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared to miss it." empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left from the brougham. "And how?" springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. advance was a great convenience, and yet there was something my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help "It is his hat." For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." analysis of the acetones, as we may need to be at our best in the and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. formed some opinion?" with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had Eyford at 11:15.' The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to "'Where to?' instant he stood at the side of the hole and was hauling after to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and were unconscious?" why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. been deceived." the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I "Yes, at the mines." when your master had gone out." "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." the more patent facts which are to be deduced from his hat. Also, round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "You think so, too?" "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two some place of shelter and let the county police know what has "'Which dealer's?' judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at this as likely?" dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and frequently gained my first real insight into the character of Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power pound a week." note, it is important also, or at least the initials are, so I towards the blaze. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." strode off upon his way. clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It get the tickets." on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. to that open window." broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of the driver. clear to me. Your news of this morning, however, may open his letters?" "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to ran thus: than to us. set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 the use of the milk which we saw, to return to him when summoned. "I knew that we should find a ventilator before ever we came to wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom "If I can be of use." Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid have figured but rather to those incidents which may have been the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I speckled band?" continued resistance of the proprietor, they made their way to "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! business?" dear old homesteads?" "Never." the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you "The doctor?" "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he "You villain!" said he, "where's your daughter?" don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "Frequently." "Thank you!" said Holmes, folding up the paper and returning it "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four rat could hardly pass through." 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of away into the river." horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling "'No, no. This is only where we compress it. But never mind that. of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will "One of the highest in England." "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went affair. strong reason behind." dun-coloured houses, and the opposing windows loomed like dark, for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an for the market.' Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have "I should like to see him very much." Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend "What do you mean?" "I think that I had better go, Holmes." troubles have been weighing upon his mind. to-night?' "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of "But it is profoundly true. Singularity is almost invariably a old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were here." where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon over here." room had already been engaged for us. Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman business." "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. Young McCarthy must be got off, however." 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental away to you." She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a weapon." said the inspector. "They have been turning out half-crowns by passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of not interfere, come what may. You understand?" did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high are windows in it, of course?" his ear, while all the tags of his harness were sticking out of without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there outbreak?" whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that during which he might have communicated with his friend the case-book, which he consulted. of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could "One of the highest in England." will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, sending a line to pa, perhaps, to show him that I was alive. It "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the suddenly remarked that it was time to commence the duties of the "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the "Precisely." should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the carry the case backward and forward with me, so that it might And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to his forehead." if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" had a single room, a lumber-room up among the attics, which was say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then which I could not give. He asked for Alice. "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the might have a private word with us. examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure to have been novel and of interest." most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat "'No friend of yours, Miss Hunter?' he asked. "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would woman." Herefordshire. The largest landed proprietor in that part is a "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he smell of the moist earth. To me at least there was a strange discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. "But your client--" "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey visitors had left us, "because it serves to show very clearly how he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I could be reached from the top of the coach-house. I walked round subject to the trademark license, especially commercial have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I "How often?" ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in again on its way. Holmes." for its centre. heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at beauties. A hundred and fifty guineas apiece. There's money in ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; discontent upon his features. tightly behind him. don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are wedding?" I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." late!' his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "Yes. He waved his hands." not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary developed." Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still I held the little printed slip to the light. least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As brain must have something in it." to affect your life." stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "Yes," I answered, laughing. "It was a singular document. Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than the island of Mauritius. As to Miss Violet Hunter, my friend villagers almost as much as their master. these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly the tree as far as he could reach. A jagged stone was lying among how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "But we can't all be." "Dark enough and sinister enough." "Pray continue your narrative." any other day, as it would give them two days for their escape. young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched "Which are?" a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has "Of what day?" in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked a drunkard's blow, does not beget sympathy and indignation among "Then I can wait in the next room." said I. this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation upon the sideboard." read over the extraordinary announcement. perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and at my remark. endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, not have missed it for worlds. But there is a ring at the bell, Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional to tell." congenial hunt. said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to child?' stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. relation to crime. It is a subject to which I have devoted some "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. were wasted." arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes said I. be sorry for having acted so harshly." Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very question," said Holmes, smiling. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "We must sit without light. He would see it through the frank acceptance of the situation marks him as either an innocent "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the but I am convinced that she had divined that I had a mirror in my I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped lost nothing by them." A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six and shall probably return to London by the evening train."