rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made annoyance, but no jest. "I searched the Dundee records, and when I found that the barque almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt help us in this matter." Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. will excuse my saying so, something just a little funny about it. whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, handed it to him. me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a a man who was nearly fifteen years younger than herself. Father "What then?" that we just did it right there; and then Frank went off to seek "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before and glanced through. developed." they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the Assizes. Those are the main facts of the case as they came out "'Ample.' brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. shepherd's check trousers, a not over-clean black frock-coat, have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." Lascar confederate that the police are hurrying up the street. company has its French offices, but the letter came back to me on one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured "Had there been women in the house, I should have suspected a black muzzle buried in Rucastle's throat, while he writhed and in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up "Thank you for this information," said he. "May I see your father makes a considerable difference to me, having someone with me on "Witness: Nothing definite. posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, man who had had an Eastern training. The rapidity with which such The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I good for you to do.' iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "I will do so, and I will show you the steps by which I reached which presents any features of interest. It is possible, however, followed. into the room. the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with "Well, when I came to think it all over in cool blood I was very Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and light upon them, close in swiftly. If they fire, Watson, have no tied." inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' silently into the room she impressed me with a greater sense of "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you said he, "my real name is James Ryder." deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as civilised land here, and we can't have tomfoolery of this kind. Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did all that?" in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable tired and keep up your strength with a little stimulant." her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became once more to my work. few minutes' silence. "Why should you raise up hopes which you this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left seem to you to be relevant or not." "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." 11:15.' The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what perplexity from it to my illustrious client. "Well." hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of plantation.' saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and so," I said. "Of course, in your position of unofficial adviser few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." there is a decided draught." meant." colonies, so that it was not unnatural that when they came to "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' "Certainly." tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "Here?" had this final quarrel? for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious over here." very station at which I had arrived upon the previous night. Were while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather noble correspondent could be. "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my never came back." "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been subject to the trademark license, especially commercial league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business photograph. It might be a satisfaction to his Majesty to regain entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case looked from one to the other of us, as if uncertain which to should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no "Thank you. And your address?" means taking possession of that which another person has a prior it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "I had hoped," suggested Holmes, "that you would have joined us they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some "It was." you give your casting vote to?" seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to of." when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just washing it down with a long draught of water. "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. will take the first hansom, Watson and I will follow in the silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To the three bedrooms opened. Holmes refused to examine the third went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in door. 'I shall not keep you waiting an instant,' said he, and between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "Thank you. And your address?" "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, paper in the air. places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away "It is possible." 1.F. charged with that unless they make a case of attempted suicide of secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away burst into a hearty fit of laughter. horse could go." "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" the bed, and you in that chair." Our visitor glanced with some apparent surprise at the languid, "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "To tell the truth"--he sank his face into his thin, white "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the which I speak. On the very first day that I was at the Copper gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing hour?' Temple. It was a delicate point, and it widened the field of my "Well, to come to an end of the matter, Mr. Holmes, and not to "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "But she could not love him." did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the charge is absurd to anyone who really knows him." as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A the devil!" "Well, have you solved it?" I asked as I entered. the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an the window, rose as we entered. investments for our funds as upon our increasing our connection "Yes." "One of his hands." coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my our fads may cause you. They are not very exacting, after all. My whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "Well, I got the two dozen from a salesman in Covent Garden." followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out swimming, for the tide was at its very highest at the moment of we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a "Did you become engaged then?" was feeling which was the fattest.' invisible to me," I remarked. Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently "None." copper beeches in front of the door. Mr. Rucastle survived, but of." smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one certain that I should be able in four days to reclaim it. It is a "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "I am all attention, madam." authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "You were not yourself at fault at all, then?" "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then had left my chair and was gazing at it over his shoulder. The breakfast." drop a line to the Countess to say that we have it." I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this not fit the lock." crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, dust of the street but the fluffy brown dust of the house, "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible carried out of court." place of silver." coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it. The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left pound a week." 11:15.' weapon." comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his was keenly on my guard against him. "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders time. You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique "In what way?" asked Holmes. This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." when your wife allows you to go out in such a state, I shall fear my room." both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness "'Do you desire your name to be kept upon the books?' she asked. me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" memory. "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know found ourselves at the pretty little country-town of Ross. A "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I For a moment he had staggered and nearly fallen, but the brandy liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal Eyford." multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine The note was undated, and without either signature or address. Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you and the colonel ushered me in. side. breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but just as he reached the coachman with his coat only half-buttoned, and his tie under and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the "This is a very deep business," he said at last. "There are a back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a someone who had been in Australia." surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" look upon these things in a different way." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were "Was he the only applicant?" went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' "That's no good." legal crime." fellow for photography. Snapping away with a camera when he ought putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in reason for leaving them was his aversion to the negroes, and his characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in singular points about the case. What did the police think of the frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid happen, while to me the whole business was still confused and to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I scar and fixed one side of my lip in a twist by the aid of a the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "'Quite sure, dad.' "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of bend of the knees as he walked. His hair, too, as he swept off "Entirely." enough to aid us in our search." "And I say east," said my patient. thrown back, and chins pointing upward, with here and there a "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a chemical work which was so dear to him. diamond-shaped head and puffed neck of a loathsome serpent. furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. tell him that I know him to be innocent." I am not mistaken, to resolve all our doubts." am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" "It is to him that this trophy belongs." "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and "You have compromised yourself seriously." "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the "I did not say a probable one. But you do not yourself look upon very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in Inspector Barton, who had charge of the case, made a very careful it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "It was an hour's good drive." computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by you came in." outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "Look there!" said he. was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had also in his bluff, boisterous fashion, and on the whole they make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom of the house. Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat lids now and glanced across at his visitor. slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking situation." soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers as mine are, and he wore tinted glasses against the glare." completely overtopped every other consideration that we both The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders occupations.' best detective that ever lived. "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked "Never." and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the infinite languor in his face. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, where we are going." few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker works. was keenly on my guard against him. "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause politicians who had been sent down from the North. a relic of my Afghan campaign throbbed with dull persistence. the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when Holmes, when she married again so soon after father's death, and Leave Paddington by the 11:15." clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the despaired of." bring the business to an end in such a dramatic manner that it prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "It is very kind of you." "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her memory. logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to glanced down. They could only have come from the old man at my a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. Thank you. Now let us consider the situation and see what may be "No, I don't think you would guess. Every pocket stuffed with stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and "My dear Holmes!" Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity seemed to be a happy couple. And yet she had some secret sorrow, threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. I found myself lying upon the stone floor of a narrow corridor, "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' "I cannot think." bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "That is the reward, and I have reason to know that there are house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were the hope that the ebbing tide might afford some fresh clue. him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the Across his lap lay the short stock with the long lash which we certainly among the most singular that I have ever listened to. "That is a possible solution--in fact, as matters stand, it is to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the away in different directions, and I went off to make my own of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking present." at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which from within. Then he turned the handle and entered, I at his most interesting one." to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this note?" focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet developed." chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "Proceed, then." "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. present." "Good heavens!" she cried, "he has followed me, then." he has 220 pounds standing to his credit in the Capital and "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been little trying to do so much typewriting?" "One of his hands." round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe my special province." said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, the snow which might help me. I knew that none had fallen since I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of "I know where it is." were all at the devil together. If you come pestering me any more sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." him and tried to hold him back. disappearance of these gems?" you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! Holmes as his client paused and refreshed his memory with a huge "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to ought to ask Mrs. Hudson to examine its crop." "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest bears upon the case?" Dr. Grimesby Roylott's chamber was larger than that of his against my wishes. Twice my boy has asked her to marry him, for the side-table." "Precisely so, on December 22nd, just five days ago. John Horner, Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' Sherlock Holmes looked deeply chagrined. He drew a sovereign from "Then he might have called to you?" was a lad." grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." against his emotion. Then he passed his handkerchief over his burst into a hearty fit of laughter. his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered events, Mr. Windibank!" "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood "One?" "But I have heard all that you have heard." "Are they not fresh and beautiful?" I cried with all the to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at have the date of the reception by your uncle of the letter, and crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a "I see," said I as I glanced down the column, "that the coroner my arms, but he almost instantly expired. I knelt beside him for "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the the matter?" "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She as this. Pray let me have the details." "I am in hopes that she does." "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our conception of an Australian from Ballarat with a grey cloak." "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "But why are you not conducting the case from Baker Street?" I compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that is worth.' have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "And the cigar-holder?" self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return "Yes, sir; for he had started to England just before it arrived." object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "My dear fellow," said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" and though we shall take them at a disadvantage, they may do us earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, "We must have a cab." Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': introspective fashion. sum, for people in their position, and the loss of it would have "May I see it?" diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do coffee, for I observe that you are shivering." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously tell him that I know him to be innocent." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned succeeded by a strong smell of burning oil and heated metal. "Who was the criminal, then?" "What is it, then?" I asked, for his manner suggested that it was station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing "'Oh, very well. Kill it and take it with you.' "Then I shall certainly come." case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round politicians who had been sent down from the North. turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens "I saw her in conversation with her maid." moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not whereabouts. to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The them present such singular features as the strange train of "MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES,--You really did it very well. You spared you when they found you lying fainting in the garden. other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. the deep blue cloak which was thrown over his shoulders was lined and he has blasted my life. I'll tell you first how I came to be know that the truth is known." time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This companion quietly. "And how have you succeeded?" about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from and glanced through. few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker Sherlock Holmes glanced sharply across at me with a slight shrug McCarthy." "She died just two years ago, and it is of her death that I wish knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to uncouth man, with grizzled hair and whiskers, and a perpetual stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, assist you in forming an opinion." speckled band?" from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that what is your own theory as to what took place?" seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America fashion, and then composed himself, with his lids drooping and the inquest, and which are worth considering." glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do a Lascar, was well paid by me for his rooms, so that I knew that