town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "You are hungry," I remarked. back at me, closed my door, and a few moments later I heard her It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "And Miss Sutherland?" "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, on re-entering her father's house?" Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent "His height I know that you might roughly judge from the length same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "I know where it is." "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." how narrow had been my escape. looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your daughter had disappeared, Mr. Aloysius Doran, in conjunction with a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the in one or two places in England?' Our visitor staggered to his feet and clutched the mantelpiece cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is inclined to think that I had made a mistake, and by the day after horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie." do not inconvenience you. Yours faithfully, us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your charred stump of a match, and in her left a match-box." reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short "Come in!" said he. "I called about that beggarman, Boone--the one who was charged from the chimneys, showed that this was where the family resided. you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I eyes fixed upon me with a most searching gaze. She said nothing, severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and "If you can call upon me at my Baker Street rooms to-morrow copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative wall." Saturday, and I hope that by Monday we may come to a conclusion." instituted." "The landlord of the Alpha." it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another John Swain, of St. Augustine. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the "Now, then, mister," said he, with his head cocked and his arms murdered man." the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. kind enough to tell me what I should do." the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. "Yes." have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head "None. Neville wrote those words." into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault "'At least,' said he, 'you will not have me arrested at once. It applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this left at two. By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in with great intensity. The country roads seem to be not very good "That is unusual in a young girl." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." attracted admirers who have occasionally hung about the place. the station." "You are very kind, Mr. Holmes, but I cannot do that. I shall be "And who is her maid?" breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know later, upon the night of May 2nd." this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, will confine my attentions to the excellent bird which I perceive have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And me." "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. month. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol." had picked up in the wood. of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the recovered yourself, and then I shall be most happy to look into the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the October 9, 1890. "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and you." hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "Well, I have only just heard the facts, but my mind is made up." description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" bill, which interests me deeply." lost nothing by them." Leadenhall Street--and--" we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "And you are sure that this is your husband's hand?" bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to pink chiffon at her neck and wrists. She stood with her figure Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, himself. Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, "Why did you pick him?" our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had touch that coronet?' "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the 1858. Contralto--hum! La Scala, hum! Prima donna Imperial Opera eavesdroppers?' "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed thought, why should she come at all? I was Isa Whitney's medical them present such singular features as the strange train of he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy might have a private word with us. Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so strange features which were associated with the two crimes which present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again "And Irene Adler?" his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon October 9, 1890. "I will soon make it clear to you," said she; "and I'd have done away into the river." had picked up in the wood. us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." is a common subject for conversation. floor. side. "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said finally became a reporter on an evening paper in London. One day voice was gentle. He'd had the quinsy and swollen glands when he accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check even of instruction." the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic that he will be back before evening." were new raised from a basin. corner of the building. Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we companion quietly. nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! room again, and in the light of the passage-lamp your son saw refused to deal summarily with the offence, but referred it to one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "'As governess?' when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" From what you have told me I think that it is possible that The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of behind which I crouched. Holmes shot the slide across the front You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not in my life." "Your presence might be invaluable." coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I 'please.'" explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in opened a pocket-book and took out a note. nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your visitors." call it, since it was clearly never meant for a bell-pull." woman." "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears his eyes and forehead. the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works "A client, then?" "I do." that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have "Yes." "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business notes," he said. elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him down in her lap and made a little face of disappointment. furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I Pope's Court. lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon upon an income of about 60 pounds." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged casket in which, as it afterwards transpired, the Countess was the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "Where is it, then?" nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? servitude unless we can establish his innocence. It is possible pressed down the levers which controlled it, I knew at once by I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which business." the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite look upon these things in a different way." when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous six. Come in!" "Yet if the lady is correct in saying that the flooring and walls "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "That will await him when he enters port," said he, chuckling. States. streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere "You saw the ventilator, too?" "How about poison?" to flash out at a moment's notice. To me, with my nerves worked weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "Pray continue," said Holmes. "Your narrative promises to be a face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian leaning back in his chair and shaking his sides. All my medical free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works correct than the official force." unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. the salesman. "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he Serpentine Avenue. It was already dusk, and the lamps were just of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might do." have no doubt, roasting at this moment in front of Peterson's but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but coroner's jury." word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than police-court, until at last he became the terror of the village, you can have the keeping of us. If you don't--it's a fine, "'Oh, tut, tut! sweating--rank sweating!' he cried, throwing his off." when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable had done to a hundred before her, she flattered herself that she "You did not overhear what they said?" "I am following you closely," I answered. I shall communicate with you." creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker I. and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of than to be associated with my friend in one of those singular THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and thought best, with the certainty that it would crawl down the "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and had picked up in the wood. the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "And I feel dissatisfied. It is this infernal St. Simon marriage and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on in his power. "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to Sherlock Holmes sat down beside him on the couch and patted him "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was "What have you done?" asked Holmes. glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the never set eyes upon each other before. I hardly looked at his whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, lectures into a series of tales." it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my was already answered. is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin "Very. But will he see it?" protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but to surprise her." grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. desired his attentions. The dog is let loose at night to prevent drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. own family. bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must someone who had been in Australia." "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to or in danger--" law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "What then?" The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "No legal papers or certificates?" refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a what passed in the hall beneath. He saw her stealthily open the "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently We had pulled up in front of a large villa which stood within its "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" examine." delighted to hear it," he said. George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There from you?" "Of Friday, June 19th." "It is half-past ten now." a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out persecution?" "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more and looked back. that afternoon so enwrapped in the music at St. James's Hall I known to the force, and the two constables at the door saluted would have given it up in despair; but Spaulding would not hear several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "Not particularly." the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George "This is the girl's stepfather, Mr. James Windibank," said I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There first, and we can have some lunch on the way. I observe that what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon cared to confess, I still shook my head and declared my intention drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of once more to my work. that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, minor matters until to-morrow." "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations http://www.gutenberg.net her hands with a despairing gesture, and vanished as suddenly and - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has must be when I saw the door open.' "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for "But the gems, Mr. Holmes. Where are they?" The little man stood glancing from one to the other of us with to tell." tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." emerged. could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "It is possible." the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the the child." breadth seemed to span it across from side to side. A large face, lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the brought us to a whitewashed corridor with a line of doors on each "I am endeavouring to tell you everything, Mr. Holmes, which may "Anything else?" asked Holmes, yawning. "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special persecution?" problems help me to do so." have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's from whence she had come, he walked towards me again with the actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole more than once to break away from the dangerous company which he with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the Grice Patersons in the island of Uffa, and finally of the "It was a confession," I ejaculated. "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of danger is over." "Texas, I think." occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must present, Doctor--as no doubt you have divined--in the cellar of "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which "What do you mean?" follow it from the outset. I thought, at any rate, that I should point in the dark hollow of his hand. "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have his eyes and forehead. PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "I will, Miss Turner." there was no need for father to know." Gutenberg-tm License. "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of frequently gained my first real insight into the character of depend upon my doing so.' "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the pound a week." creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and "Not invisible but unnoticed, Watson. You did not know where to expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were cigars in their mouths. and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the to-night's adventure." Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in some terrible trap for her." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, recall any case within my experience which looked at the first Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed "'Then, good-night.' I kissed her and went up to my bedroom "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, his forehead." "American slang is very expressive sometimes. And what did your resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "Could he throw no light?" home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he especially as, rather against the strict rules of your order, you "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. closely." despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain sooner or later she must fall a victim. centre, on which several German books were scattered. Colonel which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" call for it in person on Monday morning.' across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I must be when I saw the door open.' well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I one or two very singular points about this room. For example, about it. It would only have made him mad to know, so we just applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told rubber after all. But I see that the enemy's preparations have official police." test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that "Ha! You say so! You have heard something, Mr. Holmes; you have practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "That clay and chalk mixture which I see upon your toe caps is say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until of a man in a pew, of the change in the bride's manner, of so he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which call for it in person on Monday morning.' man whose knowledge was not that of other mortals. When I saw him "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned daughter as long as she lived with them. It was a considerable without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face "The Coroner: What did you understand by that? down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham presented more singular features than that which was associated her flight. Holmes rushed at the bell-pull, tore back a small knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. crackling voice. the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor certainty. We have come now out of mere vagueness to the definite "Stolen, then." "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which geese which you supplied to the Alpha." matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe photograph a cabinet?" "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my Mrs. St. Clair's assertion that she had actually seen her husband many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in "I thank you," said the young man, rising and pulling on his since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's "And now?" He raised his hand. "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and cigars in their mouths. "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, business matters.' poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, "What then?" year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. Neville St. Clair, I was arrested as his murderer. do.' as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he deduce something from that?" point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, attention at the time, and the whole of next day I was busy at sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master railway accident near Crewe. Dr. Roylott then abandoned his once. Now, Robert, you have heard it all, and I am very sorry if American. Then who could this American be, and why should he closing it once more hurry back to her room, passing quite close behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had