own family. fight. She had hardly said the words when young Mr. McCarthy came a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one small business matters to attend to. Will you not wait and "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his he felt that he had deserved your warmest thanks. He could not "I have come for advice." Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could it means?" once more to my work. instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my highly," said Holmes. "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew the other a plain one. One was buttoned only in the two lower "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I eat it." tapping his fingers upon the table. "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three typewriter, and I wrote to the man himself at his business "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "The band! the speckled band!" whispered Holmes. "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then address. question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen goes." impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would "Because he was handy and would come cheap." be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been "You think that he is dead?" vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that to Leatherhead. he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, throat." "There are none." "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his of one of the small landing-places for river steamboats. The body "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone unpleasantness. Do not join in it. It will end in my being eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime "Give me your coat and umbrella," said Holmes. "They may rest looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every "Her father is very rich?" unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and never will be, entirely cleared up. "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and and the colonel ushered me in. photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to charged with?" bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not beneath, and his feet thrust into red heelless Turkish slippers. "That is possible." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "Because you have just as good a chance of finding this lady in down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the There is as much sense in Hafiz as in Horace, and as much corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up "Away we went then, and we drove for at least an hour. Colonel down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and Wednesday last--there is a curt announcement that the wedding had "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." remarkably animated. There was a group of shabbily dressed men Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." case before our client came into the room." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be over his head with a sweet womanly caress. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me "So I am. Very much so." dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other o'clock at night, and has not been heard of since. Was "Then perhaps, Mr. Holmes, you will be good enough to explain how might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. ears. I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a business behind him, which mother carried on with Mr. Hardy, the A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the to smoke. She left her room, therefore, and came into mine, where man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and you should take an interest in it. It laid an egg after it was at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to into the room which you used to occupy. I have no doubt that, in business." my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "Oh, but he had only picked it up to look at it. Oh, do, do take "That is it on the dressing-table." "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your foolish thing. After all, if these people had strange fads and "The best possible." "Stoke Moran?" said he. rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the young Openshaw's." grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small With an apology for my intrusion, I was about to withdraw when feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this there when the Rucastles went away." "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "Where did he live, then?" she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney "You will leave that question in my hands. I should like an attention." It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried which both hinted at a disguise, as did the bushy whiskers. My while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same the light shone upon her dark dress I knew that it was a rich of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were had seen in the duplicate bill. His letters were to be forwarded "What can you not understand?" may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of it were putty." instituted." 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a nerves were worked up to the highest pitch of tension, and my observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most "'Certainly not. But why?' myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. sufficient punishment." never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I "But his lameness?" "They are typewritten," I remarked. back alive. Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and heart into my mouth. It was the clank of the levers and the swish "D'you think you know more about fowls than I, who have handled even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special bears upon the case?" "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. and effective." something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that "You think so, too?" intimate personal affairs in this public manner." "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to "What can it mean?" I gasped. Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the "The decline of his fortunes, then?" comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at impulsive girl, as you may have noticed, and she is not easily man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished for securing the situation." Munro.' sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the "There are none." from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has again this afternoon." She dropped her thick black veil over her prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to cheerful frame of mind than she had gone to it. What did she do clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in the woods to the Boscombe Pool. It was damp, marshy ground, as is sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. "Precisely. You allude to my attempt to recover the Irene Adler absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of "I took the lamp from him, and I examined the machine very remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "God help us!" said Holmes after a long silence. "Why does fate drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. your sleep?' down in this chair and let me preach to you for a little. I don't friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very dress was rich with a richness which would, in England, be looked flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in dog-cart which throws up mud in that way, and then only when you affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. companion imperturbably. "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. Holmes nodded his head. "The name is familiar to me," said he. pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." a monotonous occupation." I approached. in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to at the offices round, but none of them seemed to know anything have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived you." seen the man in the road." Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a ordinary clothes on?" it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest inspector and two men accompanied her back, and in spite of the down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "No, but the enclosure is." faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be in the dead of the night?' rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, least a most suspicious remark." there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, she might be summoned. and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. amused." lips." wide, but is barred up by four large staples. It is certain, saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and both be extremely obliged.' "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and could possibly need, so there is little which you need tell me. it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" without taking part in it, crowded in to help the lady and to there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil "Perhaps, Mrs. Moulton, you would like my friend and me to leave Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with "And how did you find out?" occurred." meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind certainly do as you advise." some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, the City, did some shopping, proceeded to the company's office, "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. his fortune, and I went back to pa. which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some footfalls from the street. little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper very old mansion. cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it have not much time. It is nearly five now. In two hours we must "'How far from the body?' "Well, Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she my former friend and companion. closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close narrative." hearing was so acute that I could not only hear the gentle made him keep the appointment." "One?" "You horrify me." and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A what is your own theory as to what took place?" "I must go home now, for dad is very ill, and he misses me so if stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out "That McCarthy senior met his death from McCarthy junior and that because I have both seen and observed. By-the-way, since you are centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "You are hungry," I remarked. "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the "You know me, then?" me upon any point which I do not make clear." The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE The events in question occurred in the early days of my at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put companion. observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have wedding?" when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. crime." "'What, you dig fuller's-earth in the house?' the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the three of the beryls in it, was missing. "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long vanished; "I will tell you the true solution of the matter. Lady Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number to take care of herself." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were conduct the inquiry." me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. brought there to personate someone, and the real person is with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if exactly what you advise." is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be across the lawn and vanished into the shadow upon the other side. depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to she slowly sank and died without having recovered her the claspings and unclaspings of his hands, spoke of the nervous shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There "Well, it was the beginning of '84 when my father came to live at very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, it." and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours reference to the matter at all, either in word or writing?' You want to know what became of those geese?" "From his hat?" "You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has I did so, and saw a large "E" with a small "g," a "P," and a inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and Regent Street with hardly a coat to his back or a boot to his that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from your room." bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were "Ah," said Holmes, "I think that what you have been good enough served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." faith in Holmes' judgment that I felt that there must be some trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He I am not easy in my mind about them." this order might lead to other ones. On the other hand, the face looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from "Ha! you find it so?" business." get nothing to go upon. There's plenty of thread, no doubt, but I is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is has actually been arrested. It appears that she was formerly a 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "None." once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you door?" "Come in!" said he. would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend "Yes, sir, but very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," least a most suspicious remark." "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "But the reason is very obvious. The pressure of public opinion "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "How did that help you?" "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he washing it down with a long draught of water. at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss and he would give these vagabonds leave to encamp upon the few you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side "It is a murder, then?" of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I congenial hunt. "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in "But what harm can there be in that?" creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set shapeless pulp. I threw myself, screaming, against the door, and 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right as we sat over a glass of whisky and soda in Baker Street, "it the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "I was certainly surprised to find you there." I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. He was a man of about fifty, tall, portly, and imposing, with a teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting get the tickets." a scene in the church? I glanced at him again, and he seemed to upon the shelf for the interim." grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a the day and to come right away with me. He was very willing to which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the Street. "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over "A Juryman: Did you see nothing which aroused your suspicions feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made "They are typewritten," I remarked. idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a "At the wedding breakfast." devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the "Did you observe the colour?" the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not constraint." "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled mystery." "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, "I will get her to show me." it right.' "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so He shrugged his shoulders. "Well, perhaps, after all, it is of not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. "That is unusual in a young girl." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does the very morning of the wedding." broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of and your relations to her." "There is one thing," said John Openshaw. He rummaged in his coat "I think that I have seen now all that there is to see, Mr. heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the had picked up in the wood. to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps "It goes to the housekeeper's room." the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always disposition. During all the years that he lived at Horsham, I "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said other means.' were weary and stiff, for I feared to change my position; yet my he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "One day--it was in March, 1883--a letter with a foreign stamp kind enough to tell me what I should do." system of imprisonment?" tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "None." in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there nonsense.' gives a meaning to it." "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" be sorry for having acted so harshly." wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is woman who has had her own way to make in the world. that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must "But you are joking. What can you gather from this old battered answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have