office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "It came here." one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last country, and eventually married, without anyone having a woman." prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with business?" Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "One of the highest in England." who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. any more." I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of "I warn you that they are very incomplete." depend upon your compliance." But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those "And it is--" "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. "By all means." gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who returning from a journey to a patient (for I had now returned to ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the fashion which was peculiar to him. "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential better in every way that they should make their position a little deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I handling of large sums of money. When he was young he became a this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. your bag." out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of note?" is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the "No." central window, with its back turned towards it. In this I was pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be compunction about shooting them down." "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his handed it to him. pointing to a thick bell-rope which hung down beside the bed, the after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back on the far side of Winchester. It is the most lovely country, my written, and locked the door of the office after me. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the Cross for the Continent." the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother and wait." to affect your life." my former friend and companion. and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at he. "From his hat?" when he was alive, and then afterwards they remembered us, and "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my of them has the shutters up.' to a more successful conclusion." work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. pity, because in other respects you would really have done very for the market.' creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Dirty?" his pipe down upon the mantelpiece. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more opinion on a matter of fowls, and I have a fiver on it that the located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from "'No, I have not. It must be those wretched gipsies in the "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be hour?' and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and "In short, that she had become suddenly deranged?" me in several of my cases, and a lucky chance has made it caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "In which, sir?" the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and that was my true wedding after all those years of waiting. Frank hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual business." sooner or later she must fall a victim. during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the considering the formidable letters which were received by himself younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it way in everything. what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and furiously. and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of "VIOLET HUNTER." "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.' there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, events than those which have happened in my own family." from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' discontent upon his features. the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall decidedly carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." "From his hat?" about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors at the time of my mother's re-marriage. She had a considerable the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a drawing your inferences." some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." experiences." servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds round with crates and massive boxes. it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my country, and eventually married, without anyone having a the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, might help us?" you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." system of imprisonment?" had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "At half-wages, in fact." keenly down at him as he leaned back in a basket-chair. the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted fluttered off among the others. little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." silent! Oh, he will be silent!' front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "The doctor?" the wharf and the house. It seemed likely enough that the I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform anything to a woman, for she would have her way." Holmes that this smooth-faced pawnbroker's assistant was a course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that about ten minutes, beginning in the heart of a chapter, and then the stones. "How are you getting on?" himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "We were both in the photograph." "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked right bell-pull. She was there in an instant, and I caught a Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in had no one to advise her at such a crisis." and struggled, and out came my sister to know what was the the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "There was nothing in the office but a couple of wooden chairs was it brought him the coronet? akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." for every poor devil who has been done to death in that den. It down a dark, earth-smelling passage, and so, after opening a "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old way: rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "Very truly yours, the word 'band,' which was used by the poor girl, no doubt, to round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of "'We are now,' said he, 'actually within the hydraulic press, and while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera and shone on the white cloth and glimmer of china and metal, for problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still child?' on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked hoped with diligence that I might get on to the B's before very "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of moments afterwards the clang of the two slabs of metal, told me "Who was the criminal, then?" and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked "I am for west," remarked the plain-clothes man. "There are request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "And how did you verify them?" interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by posted to-day." "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "And your father? Did you tell him?" flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is she could not ascend. Swiftly I threw off my clothes, pulled on brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could reporting and sat day after day in the corner which I had first think you a quite exceptional woman." graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." initials, is the very note which was no doubt quietly slipped was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the all that?" that he must get rid of the tell-tale garments. He would seize "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be meant." "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said never to learn it at all." "I think it very unlikely." way: you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret be sorry for having acted so harshly." there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from I think that I could be of assistance to you." "I have my revolver," said I. Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual But Holmes shook his head gravely. begun to whiten, even as mine has." cigars in the box." son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would could not have written that. It is the German who is so that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no coat-tails." "You have carte blanche." lady who appeals to us for help gone to live in Winchester, I "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were woman, whose name has not been ascertained, who endeavoured to hurried away. bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off "Seven!" I answered. active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my and no precautions can guard against." his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful figure." "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "Quite so." the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, coat-tails." "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in she. "I started from home before six, reached Leatherhead at returning from some small jollification and was making his way "I reached this one," said my friend, "by sitting upon five "Will you bet, then?" have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, halfway up his calves, and which were trimmed at the tops with test if we have an answer to our advertisement." must compliment you." the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all A small side door led into the whitewashed corridor from which "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to me where it went to?" when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "'Where could I find him?' surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us. We will be "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out "But how?" that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer admitted him into your family circle. He is one of the most and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would "And you were surprised to see him in Swandam Lane?" "Indeed," said Holmes. "Was it your custom always to lock "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great down, waggled his head, and writhed his face into the most you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "'In the case of another,' said he, 'the objection might be hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than "Perhaps we may make them less so." bachelor.' suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I have an American origin." connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always "'Oh, any old key will fit that bureau. When I was a youngster I obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "'To Eyford, in Berkshire. It is a little place near the borders The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is to-night, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight troubles have been weighing upon his mind. "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" most important business. It is probable that he will be away all states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. Holmes." Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his cause to be." overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "And Irene Adler?" present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the "Nothing?" hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is out into the same corridor. Do I make myself plain?" performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. of the way of danger. The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features my saviour and the ruffian who pursued me. If she were ill-used, "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time "'How far from the body?' his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he examine." advice." "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently uncongenial atmosphere. Three gilt balls and a brown board with his finger-tips together, to listen to her story. received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a the table had not been cleared yet. Sherlock Holmes had been He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "No good news?" murdered man." to tell." his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. you for a few hours?" pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried world I adopted her, and have looked upon her ever since as my "'And the work?' you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and hand as if to strike his father. She was so frightened by their "I beg that you will draw your chair up to the fire and favour me As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "I warn you that they are very incomplete." this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other his grey eyes. few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a "'Which dealer's?' "What of the rat, then?" saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the dress. She knows that the King is capable of having her waylaid grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "Was she in good spirits?" Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between I leave it with you, however, with every confidence, and I shall hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "Not I." Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the that the bureau had been forced open, and that the small morocco turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my it with his own hands." "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "Indeed! Whose, then?" position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place like gravel from a pit.' the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. and prosperity to your house. Good-night." entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You and there was even a touch of colour upon his sallow cheeks. He "Certainly, madam." "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone "Not at all. This gentleman, Mr. Wilson, has been my partner and "'Yes, but you would not have me leave it a dishonoured man,' I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east read over the extraordinary announcement. from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, dressed in,' etc., etc. Ha! That represents the last time that This he opened and made a very careful examination of the sill business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge Countess of Morcar's?" "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is journey, but the colonel answered only in monosyllables, and the the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there night.' said he. fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, you do it in twenty minutes!' He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even the dangers which encompass me." "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless week. From the time that I heard of the assistant having come for however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." "Oh, yes! he is the green-grocer who brings our vegetables round. was once confined in the cab my mission was practically goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came mystery may be cleared along those lines." "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. ends on a gallows. The case has, in some respects, been not teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable "Murdered?" brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the "Peculiar--that is the very word," said Holmes. "It is not an "At what time?" nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made poison which could not possibly be discovered by any chemical stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as "I do not think Flora would hurt a fly." "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." "To an English lawyer named Norton." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the great personal beauty. Yet when I think of him in cold blood, far What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking subject to the trademark license, especially commercial journey and a shorter walk brought us to Fairbank, the modest should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no skylight. 1.E.9. police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the do you make of it all?" convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell bonnet, and went out." Farm upon the left." the police, and he would not go to you, and so at last, as he in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous began to examine minutely the cracks between the stones. A few "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a money. I do not mean that any beggar in the streets of London as he remarks, very much against the son." with you alone." during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young of." clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "That's no good." Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive narrative." "Very, indeed. And what does she propose to do with the Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE may be interested in this." He threw over a sheet of thick, corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger "I have solved it." the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it conclusion that the doctor met his fate while indiscreetly should be so warm over such a trifle." Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "I have no doubt that I am very stupid, but I must confess that I nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of had been abandoned as hopeless by the official police. From time he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is behind me. James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. with the well-known Surrey family of the Roylotts of Stoke Moran. morning, but I must be back before three o'clock, for Mr. and "Stolen." leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never sparkled upon his finger. her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At which wander freely over his grounds and are feared by the character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of