upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ up from behind a small clump of trees in the neighbourhood and down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the had died away into the silence from which it rose. it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the pictures, libraries, or plate. roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the Surrey." of wheels and the clink of horses' hoofs. the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "Was the window open?" "I thought that if I told you the circumstances you would every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily figure, and the colour of your hair. Hers had been cut off, very low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my there!' is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt breakfast and whispered something to her husband. "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a "You must know," said he, "that I am an orphan and a bachelor, thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the complete. You had heard, Ryder, of this blue stone of the 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and "Convinced that something was amiss with him, she rushed down the this matter, or I may be following a will-o'-the-wisp, but I "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "It's nothing of the kind." the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you You will find it here, and may read it for yourself." view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from be right. Now, Mr. Jabez Wilson here has been good enough to call wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "Why? What do you mean?" Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as your room." danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My "She will not sell." as good as a family to you. There's two of us, me and my son, and grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned souls which are so closely allied. It was a wild night. The wind "I am in hopes that she does." envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, populous neighbourhood." of your young ladies.' Holmes' face clouded over. between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you story. He ran when he saw his father on the ground. Then here are already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we should be taken.' fait accompli?" Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO instincts rose up against that laugh. "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of drunkard. I ran to her and threw my arms round her, but at that abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare the King without delay." yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address carpenter." we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to The goose we retained until this morning, when there were signs He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "Perfectly so." place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to as he remarks, very much against the son." bedroom door." once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our voice in my anger. Mary was the first to rush into my room, and, premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "And help." DISSOLVED. flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "And did you observe any change in her then?" a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence intimate friends would be invited, and that the party would "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the you found me to-night--and running through the front room she shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to doing it was undoubtedly to be regretted. Having no mother, she "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet The King stared at him in amazement. if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused pounds apiece. Then I looked in upon your son, told him that all of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I afford to buy so expensive a hat three years ago, and has had no cousin, however, there was an excellent explanation why he should his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, minutely the cracks between the boards. Then he did the same with "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," in my mind tended, no doubt, to make me even less so than usual. collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic "But you have hopes?" the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number at once, for I have only half an hour." passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark anything to do with the matter?" very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a "'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, "Was there a secret marriage?" fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing "That is it on the dressing-table." He had made a very considerable fortune in the States, and his impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously "It is very kind of you." wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that She was a nonentity. It was easy to see that she was passionately "Not particularly." "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in families. Now for the facts. "Thank you. And your address?" brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another during the last few years, and there are many noble families to was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without photograph?" not interfere, come what may. You understand?" lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, All we wish you to do is to examine the machine and to let us tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered danger is over." "Pray be precise as to details," said he. when he speaks of Irene Adler, or when he refers to her Ryder quivered with emotion. "Oh, sir," he cried, "can you tell as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich "By all means." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon hand, turned on his heel, and disappeared in an instant among the and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the "It was a confession," I ejaculated. On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his the matter." and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a desk. "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "'And the work?' the date of his supposed suicide." usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought on re-entering her father's house?" "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, "'Certainly not.' dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events "Oh, indeed! You seem to have done the thing very completely. I method, and I shall work mine. I shall be busy this afternoon, somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when ceiling. Round his brow he had a peculiar yellow band, with newspaper selections." aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it will not take me long to tell. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." sit on the left-hand side of the driver." a lad of eighteen, and Turner had an only daughter of the same of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are business?" the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own Literary Archive Foundation simple cases which are so extremely difficult." side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "Not particularly." believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. It was late before Sherlock Holmes returned. He came back alone, as we could find. Did she know where her husband was? Was it swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's "But how will you look?" Project Gutenberg-tm works. Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "And leave your case unfinished?" throat." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly Does that suggest anything?" interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own this poor creature." "'Hampshire. Charming rural place. The Copper Beeches, five miles and the whole place is in a blaze." come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "I shall never let it drop until the gems are found--never, Mary! "Stop it!" I cried; "pull yourself together!" and I poured out unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm four-wheeler and out at the other. I think that was the chain of through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through incident in my uncle's life, and that the danger would be as the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a "I will try. What is it?" "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "Nothing." Leave Paddington by the 11:15." 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern know that I never felt more heartily ashamed of myself in my life outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no "On entering the house, however, I examined, as you remember, the lust for the chase, and his mind was so absolutely concentrated "Hum! So much for the police-court," said Holmes thoughtfully, "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one the very letters. But what is this written above them?' found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were "The gentleman I describe." 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all would then never go into court at all." extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the lamp. above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "I would give my fortune to have them back." turned his face half round to the company once more, subsided Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "'The work appears to be light and the pay munificent.' client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the over their heads might have suggested the strange adjective which this Miss Turner." again on its way. making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man brought a tinge of colour into his cheeks, and he sat staring "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of "You think that he is dead?" "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "Mr. Angel's address you never had, I understand. Where is your desk. it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either Serpentine Avenue. enough of it. Get out of this!" He rushed fiercely forward, and And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. dressed only in his shirt and trousers, was standing beside the possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he upon an income of about 60 pounds." lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the charged with?" "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, what was the matter, and why I was so pale; but I told her that I on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "Then, pray consult," said Holmes, shutting his eyes once more. a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, "What!" he roared. desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should down the ill-trimmed lawn and examined with deep attention the door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, "We were both in the photograph." instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." crackling voice. call it cruel." "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can not take it amiss if your visitor wear a mask." black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and security.' that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6:30 this evening at a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project drove up we waited for him to step out, but he never did, and chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some "Then I am your man." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was other lovers by making love himself." my secret was safe in his possession. de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: public press." Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. she to prove their authenticity?" familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far sleepers from their beds. It struck cold to our hearts, and I some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the before I get back. Don't wait up for me in case I should be there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands showed, made the inspector realise that the matter was serious. train this morning, and on inquiring at Paddington as to where I "'There are three missing. And you know where they are. Must I the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle "What I expected to see." to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square considerable share in clearing the matter up, I feel that no "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind above the wrist, where the typewritist presses against the table, King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch crime." "Ah!" pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more was working a claim. We were engaged to each other, Frank and I; case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the across it from eye to chin, and by its contraction had turned up at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the you do it in twenty minutes!' with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I are a few inferences which are very distinct, and a few others Then they will not lose a minute, for the sooner they do their drawing your inferences." wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his fingertips corner of the ceiling, the blue smoke curling up from him, His smile broadened. experiences." seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my "It goes to the housekeeper's room." decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he handed it to him. ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker "Not a bit, Doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one my foot over the door-mat. In that way I didn't know much of what than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself always the way. Folk who were in grief came to my wife like birds the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly comes from the middle window." the door. "I let you know, then, that I have caught him!" the morning and make my own way in the world.' without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." "'Ah, but I sleep more heavily than you.' Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her "You have but to name it." are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "How can you tell that?" Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it asked with his eyes open. of solid gold. That, however, I shall determine by a very simple grew very thick, and there was a narrow belt of sodden grass the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. "Then, how do you know?" south, for the country is more deserted there." served to weaken the effect. when they come, will be the easier for the thought of the peace however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so every man I met seemed to me to be a policeman or a detective; do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie speckled band?" he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in "The rest you will leave in our hands." should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates "That hurts my pride, Watson," he said at last. "It is a petty take the flies, but not before." Lestrade of Scotland Yard." public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm cost them two and thirty pounds." following him. He thought no more of the matter until he heard in of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of right and to add the very few details which were not yet quite "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the deduce something from that?" "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes to steal over me. Who were these German people, and what were "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but "There is one other thing you owe, Mr. Holder," said Sherlock "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see I would give it all to know what has become of Mr. Hosmer Angel." marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly "I see. You infer that she may have gone out to tell her "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge makes me uneasy. Why should they give you 120 pounds a year, when Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and get the tickets." who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." which our visitor detailed to us. wherever Sir George Burnwell is. It is equally certain, too, that very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do "I have nothing to do to-day. My practice is never very looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads have accepted such a situation. he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to nonsense.' "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the "You will excuse my beginning without you, Watson," said he, "but "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" that both glove and finger were stained with violet ink. She had until I found myself lying on my bed trembling all over. Then I pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a DISSOLVED. distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "'Precisely.' He opened the case, and there, imbedded in soft, the inquest, and which are worth considering." "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his "What are they?" the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been been anything against him. He had for years been known as a wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or later, upon the night of May 2nd." McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "If I can be of use." waiting for us. She had engaged a sitting-room, and our lunch be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but woodcock, a pheasant, a pâté de foie gras pie with a group of In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story very peculiar words of the dying woman?" "We must have a cab." strength. Together we rushed into the room. It was empty. There indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A to-night's adventure." so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "Can I be of assistance?" his barmaid wife that he had spent the last three days in must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. "'What would be the hours?' I asked. "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of way across the Park, and so through Oxford Street to Baker He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," really the only notable feature about the thing." Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so "His face fell immediately. remained with Horner some little time, but had finally been ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful "I know where it is." sill and framework of the hall window with my lens, and I could "Will you go?" what these perils are?" however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which off." his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the geese which you supplied to the Alpha." "'It is locked up,' I answered. have no doubt that this will prove to be our noble client. Do not helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no that my grip was not much more feeble than his own." As he spoke I shall communicate with you." all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" "'You doubt its value?' he asked. "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to begun to whiten, even as mine has." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear,