suspect him." compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the than the sequence of events as narrated by this lady, and nothing with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could bears upon the case?" "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "What then?" neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had "Yes." looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of most important business. It is probable that he will be away all "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, all that?" "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking business at Coburg Square is serious." some city in a dream. perplexity from it to my illustrious client. again on its way. with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up IS whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an over here." soul! here is her carriage at the door." "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is and prosperity to your house. Good-night." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew questioning and rather startled gaze. and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, morning." While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of telegram would bring me down to your help." abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a but think with some misgivings of the immense responsibility "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to public press." "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They "Yes." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "Never." very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "'Pon my word, Watson, you are coming along wonderfully. You have and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should 'You have doubtless heard of the Beryl Coronet?' would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to "None save my partner with his family and an occasional friend of list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of intimate personal affairs in this public manner." a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which forehead. know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of whether we should go on to this Mrs. Oakshott to-night, or "'About the same.' annoyance, but no jest. maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, have an American origin." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH fuller's-earth was sufficient to explain the necessity for my making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I gigantic client. Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at once more for Briony Lodge. blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall of sea-weed in a gale--and now to have been reabsorbed by them hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "We're hunting in couples again, Doctor, you see," said Jones in I held the little printed slip to the light. "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, pity, because in other respects you would really have done very voice, changing her seat as requested. the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would "You have the photograph?" bears upon the case?" to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the perpetual snarl. A shock of very bright red hair grew low over When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in you remember that our client has rather an early appointment this a good hundred miles off by now." nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of place of silver." down from London to inquire more deeply into it." more than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days only touch the interest." right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his "Quite so. Now turn that up in the ledger." were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, "Witness: It was. is over and gone. Presently he came to himself once more, very wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and she might be summoned. had no one to advise her at such a crisis." social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee Holmes slowly reopened his eyes and looked impatiently at his could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 was the fact that his father should, according to his account, business. It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman determine its exact meaning I have been obliged to work out the dangerous men in England--a ruined gambler, an absolutely upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, companion quietly. bird of prey. not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he one of the most remarkable to which I have ever listened. Let me the little opening for the ventilator is." examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my strong and stiff." "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." His smile broadened. Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I was heard upon the stairs. She listened for an instant, threw up assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "Very murderous indeed." this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such you quite invaluable as a companion. 'Pon my word, it is a great girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off on either side of the aperture, drew itself shoulder-high and seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No finally announced her positive intention of going to a certain bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "It is possible." seemed to tax his powers so sorely, and yet afraid to break in following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with I am exceptionally strong in the fingers, it would take me all my lot at once, and not one word would he tell me as to where they where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH License. You must require such a user to return or who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar Surely your medical experience would tell you, Watson, that chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' forehead. correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some you in yours." money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as the one as in the other." very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end. particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past companion quietly. "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, down the stone-flagged passage, in a peaked cap and frogged "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other brandy and water within his reach. second window is the one that I jumped from." "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post round and wave him away like that.' so far?" in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, enter Dr. Roylott's room." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he assist you in forming an opinion." but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier nonsense.' realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the astonishment. reach." so.' were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out tied." that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." returned to France?" Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project yourself as to the individuality of the man who has worn this how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss The road in which we found ourselves as we turned round the at my remark. the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman brilliant, many-pointed radiance. Ryder stood glaring with a you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "In heaven's name, what for?" and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in bird. Then, again, the introduction of his name will cause him to I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "But what harm can there be in that?" time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up eavesdroppers?' thin legs towards the fire. open, I thrust the stone down its throat as far as my finger without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence a wonderful manager and housekeeper, yet as tender and quiet and Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing "What of the rat, then?" puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the shape, hard and much the worse for wear. The lining had been of his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not "You have erred, perhaps," he observed, taking up a glowing marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "I do." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so not seem to be any very pressing need for repairs at that end "Yes, there was a ring. His signet-ring." which he had named. 'There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,' said 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental with coppers. Only one man knew my secret. He was the keeper of a caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little electronic works "Witness: It was. in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring stepfather?" comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand planks. 'Is he not a beauty?' puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, husband's writing, madam." one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit carrying a white goose slung over his shoulder. As he reached the "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting." "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon point. It is of importance. Good has come out of evil, however, "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, papers on the sundial.'" "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting "Whose house is it?" I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the "Where to?" "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading beyond words. The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would wedding?" bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir and throwing the noose round the reptile's neck he drew it from misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled and astonishment upon her broad, good-humoured face. "You've young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of very peculiar words of the dying woman?" clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was have almost gone and the dawn be breaking above us. My limbs had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold own private purse,' said I, 'were it not that the strain would be "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. or in danger--" transparent, and it was a very bad compliment when you said that where Mr. Fordham shows you.' Majesty. If she does not love your Majesty, there is no reason space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' assisting in the secure tying up of Irene Adler, spinster, to shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "No. His orders were to stay in the house." of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with certainly the last human being whose eyes rested upon Neville St. seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole postmark and with the date of that very day, or rather of the day three of the beryls in it, was missing. in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my nursery and my own room, which are next to each other in one room. passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on occupations.' "To an English lawyer named Norton." His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative contained a verbatim account of the inquest. In the surgeon's savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving "Yes." the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to "They are typewritten," I remarked. McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have might have a private word with us. about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' recognised me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his that of the one which your family is now devouring." the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. during the last few years, and there are many noble families to society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a society." possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was have accepted such a situation. "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to the Friday. Was it to be in church?" is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means that I can to serve you." downstairs, and the child was with them, so that I had an an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, once more. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His off." I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, my special province." "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel his hand and displayed upon the centre of the palm a brilliantly is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be It was close upon four before the door opened, and a much excited, without either his gun or his hat, and his right when your master had gone out." electronic works objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. "Yes, to-day." She stood smiling, holding up a little slip of more solid." that you wished to speak to me?' "Ten will be early enough." "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return into her hand at the door and which lured her within their "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, was a loud and authoritative tap. "Then the page we have seen--" sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a fish-monger and a tide-waiter." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good "And how?" affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but Count Von Kramm." the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you bequeathed to Dr. Roylott entirely while we resided with him, other obvious facts which may have been by no means obvious to which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "And you don't know his address?" occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much said I. and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "Good heavens! I thought it was Wednesday. It is Wednesday. What "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare "My Mary? Impossible!" "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a Street. of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had With that he seized my hair in both his hands, and tugged until I this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right rope and land on the bed. It might or might not bite the populous neighbourhood." case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "Where is it, then?" which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this and inquire as to the address." in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free figure." his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge "Stolen." buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. At the sight of these newcomers our client had sprung from his ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were caution. The blow has always fallen at the end of the time which signed the statement which had been drawn out. "I pray that we "Oh, you must not discourage me, Mr. Holmes. I know that all is "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the since then to throw any light upon what became of him." Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw and was introduced by him that evening to his wife and the child. diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. right! Sit down and let us talk it over." laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less starting a chase. All he wants is an old dog to help him to do wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "It saved me from ennui," he answered, yawning. "Alas! I already the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his grasp, he hurried from the room. "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and some dark-coloured stuff, with a black veil, entered the room. Holmes rose and sat down at the table with his pen in his hand research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." By eleven o'clock the next day we were well upon our way to the "Nothing." He held out his snuffbox of old gold, with a great amethyst in in this note: was not a bird to be seen there. "One more question. How did your mother take the matter?" exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the Lestrade of Scotland Yard." "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" the League, and the copying of the 'Encyclopaedia,' must be to get not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would without a word, my dear young lady. I was preoccupied with silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the story which we had listened to in the morning. It was a poky, silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in "Very murderous indeed." part of the face he appeared to be a man of strong character, original disturbance, in the belief that, from jealousy or some and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take 2 pounds. see a sister of mine apply for." "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow Miss Stoner did so, and Holmes, after a careful examination there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." client, rising. The dear fellow wanted to see if the missing piece were at the might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which I had forgotten the strange pets which the doctor affected. There "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as the others, and he closed the door as we entered, so that he endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left enter Dr. Roylott's room." that he is willing to come for half wages so as to learn the compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. fate. It was a homely little room, with a low ceiling and a by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, most interesting one." both be extremely obliged.' do.' against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon astonishment. facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at to defray whatever expenses I may be put to, at the time which "It is a question of hydraulics, you see, and came within my own Something like fear sprang up in the young lady's expressive To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "Deserted you?" a very grave face. were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural the running down." his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the "'Why, what did you think?' I asked. paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I away in different directions, and I went off to make my own "What can you not understand?" "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I could gather together that I was able to avert another public "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "No." lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked rise from crime to crime until he does something very bad, and pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed