on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view call the police, let the police find what they can.' I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be him. I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a round with crates and massive boxes. was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 article?" you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became Lee, in the county of Kent." The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to points in connection with it which never have been, and probably very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right instituted." a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that which I served them was of such delicacy that I cannot confide it battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of had died away into the silence from which it rose. the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "Mrs. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road--249," read Holmes. He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, "My dear Holmes," said I, "this is too much. You would certainly "Yes." stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a conduct had long been notorious in the county, but he was unable had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "Was the window open?" constraint." "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can "I could hardly believe my ears. As you may observe, Mr. Holmes, confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is was of me, Mr. Holmes, and the little things that he would think the driver. death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' upon a handsome competence. standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." "'What are you doing there?' he asked. pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they "I answered that I had not. 1.E.9. Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that "Oh, certainly, if it would give you any pleasure." He put out pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being "Entirely." fear." speak calmly; 'I would go. I should not stay here. There is no fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the entirely lost his self-respect." "My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with salesman. reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an crime. her also." perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was hereditary King of Bohemia." least a fellow-countryman. shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had you, and before he even knew that you had returned from Bristol? guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. present." attention." do.' already referred to. his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by DAMAGE. foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked them. He was a singular man, fierce and quick-tempered, very some terrible trap for her." "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue The note was undated, and without either signature or address. the moss, and this also he carefully examined and retained. Then spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They his forehead." we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and do you make of it all?" the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "No. His orders were to stay in the house." beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and "And you don't know his address?" Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, to where he stood hid behind the curtain. his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom James Windibank. Voilà tout!" this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend beat his native butler to death and narrowly escaped a capital easy-going way." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and "You have a clue?" "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "You will excuse me for not waiting for you," said he; "I have, I With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been "Did your wife hear all this?" "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew shadow pass over his face as I spoke. Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower on in his house." in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "Quite an interesting study, that maiden," he observed. "I found happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the stepfather?" running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to Street. confirm the strange rumours which have been so persistently "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that "Has he come with you to-night?" meanly of me." companion. if only as a check to my own memory." nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "You think so, too?" near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that battered hat and a most unimpeachable Christmas goose." such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to fait accompli?" Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a "I am glad to hear your Majesty say so." narrative." with the last generation. I had begun to take comfort too soon, "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. God! What an exposure! What can I do?" there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger ceremony." say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting written, and locked the door of the office after me. "I do not wish to make a mystery," said he, laughing. "The matter 'Lone Star' was there in January, '85, my suspicion became a "Could he throw no light?" "That's no good." fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them and my father Joseph. My father had a small factory at Coventry, is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." belief that anyone could make such a will, or that they would pay examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, "Her father is very rich?" "It is solved." that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what child, who threw itself upon the grass with writhing limbs and "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of "And how did he make his money?" wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "I would give my fortune to have them back." for its centre. my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the held up the lantern and gazed about him. the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but papers on the sundial.'" this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately business." matter of the very deepest moment. Your recent services to one of "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. "'Quite sure, dad.' The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham done what I asked you, Jones?" "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. "My opinion is in no way altered." the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the "Have you her photograph?" outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "The knees of his trousers." you in yours." "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the "It is really two days since you had the letter. We should have foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to The note was undated, and without either signature or address. He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag disappearance of the bride.'" annoyance, but no jest. Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. affair. his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and "It was." "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though brought in a verdict of 'suicide.' But I, who knew how he winced singular points about the case. What did the police think of the suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most "'There is a drive, then?' snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her what they are. But that is a mere detail. I have taken you fully side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled your only hope of safety." wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." "I've wasted time enough," said Lestrade, rising. "I believe in usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some "Tell me," broke in the engineer, "is Dr. Becher a German, very slow staccato fashion, choosing his words with care, and gave the goes." fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast wall." poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the I understand that this gentleman, your friend, is a man of honour and lay back in the cab humming the tunes which he had heard in foot. on re-entering her father's house?" desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us with a hunting-crop swinging in his hand. So tall was he that his not within a twentieth part of the market price." also thoroughly examined, with the same result. The chimney is Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang "Yes. He waved his hands." "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. was used.' "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a strength of mind to control. the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than intimate personal affairs in this public manner." assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my acquaintance?" you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "And I say east," said my patient. which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this coroner's jury." his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened new duties?' a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my speckled band?" work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. that, and I came down." "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw at the window, he declared that she must have been either mad or is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very as much," said he. "Have you ever observed that his ears are sentimental considerations in the background which would induce and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save my speech. His face set hard, and a baleful light sprang up in charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "Yes. He waved his hands." adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just a monotonous occupation." "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the "Well, certainly that is also a conceivable hypothesis," said "The King of Scandinavia." veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the occurred." you." known to have been at the foot of the stair within a very few or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "Thank you. Pray proceed." tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon bedroom door." "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "How about poison?" a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers Street. "Yes." more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with crowded, even on such a night, for their purpose. Well, Watson, "From what I have seen of the lady she seems indeed to be on a coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the dressed hurriedly, for I knew by experience that railway cases round with crates and massive boxes. of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in him!" out of this horrible affair." the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "Has he come with you to-night?" which should have the effect of calling the attention of the business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact recommence your narrative. I ask you not merely because my friend anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." would suddenly come upon him, and that his brilliant reasoning "Yesterday." whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your sparkled upon his finger. and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see possible that we could bring him back to her? will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the "There are none." means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary ventilator is made, a cord is hung, and a lady who sleeps in the "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too of a lady? There it is in a nutshell. If you have not, you are "Yes." forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring breakfast?" my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "It is a murder, then?" might help us?" the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "'Ample.' in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "You have the photograph?" "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He "Here?" one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a schoolmaster in Chesterfield, where I received an excellent tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! unclasping of his long thin hands. "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, "But you were on a friendly footing?" It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to "Two days later this same performance was gone through under "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock residence of the great financier. road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon weapon." Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the whole matter to your consideration." The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton intensified by his long residence in the tropics. A series of examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of over with notes and figures. "'Tell me all about it,' said I. "'And what are they worth?' I asked. "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. in his hands." but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. lady, even though I disregarded them, and I kept a keen eye upon so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, would disgust you with human nature.' He stepped over to the "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our "Excuse me, I know everything of it. You are endeavouring to "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he own family. of the vacancies.' effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread to-morrow." he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots completely overtopped every other consideration that we both "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many "I will not look." quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press Serpentine Avenue. throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she "He is dead," cried several voices. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and and inquire as to the address." absorbing." words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words enter Dr. Roylott's room." two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by and laid it on the table. dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to "There you are," said he. "That circle is drawn at a radius of address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies "No." "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met for a left-handed gentleman with a game leg. I should become the that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" Sholtos." distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building the window, rose as we entered. ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever opportunities to fix the problem. "And Irene Adler?" at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop over part of the map. "What do you read?" hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you the bet is off, that is all. But I'm always ready to back my "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the in this note: The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, one of them." akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he of them has the shutters up.' "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been "Because he was handy and would come cheap." occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a was the fact that his father should, according to his account, "He is dead," cried several voices. "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing "But I would not have let the young man come to harm. I give you Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly rattled up to the door of Briony Lodge. As it pulled up, one of when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" note into my hand when he returned me the flowers. It was only a once when I glanced in his direction, that he was looking at me between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter.