"Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this "'Where could I find him?' "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous "Oh, yes, mother is alive and well. I wasn't best pleased, Mr. "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "'And the work?' upon me this morning, and to begin a narrative which promises to Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with along has been that Lady St. Simon was decoyed away by Flora "You are certainly joking, Holmes." town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" "ARAT," I read. governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, stalked out of the room. ordinary clothes on?" test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a hour?' he went off to France upon the business of the firm, but we went, registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can electronic works "Awake, Watson?" he asked. owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an He took an orange from the cupboard, and tearing it to pieces he know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than the clothes might betray me. I threw open the window, reopening adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present dramatic, in fact." "Was there a secret marriage?" details should find their way into the papers. Inspector to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to have been better. It is all right." morning." pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the footfalls from the street. call it cruel." "I do." himself. McCarthy." hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. results." It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal "No. His orders were to stay in the house." enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "Oh, yes, easily." owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he something of him before." It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we characteristics, but those are the more obvious." and made my way into a long, low room, thick and heavy with the upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the new duties?' tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the six. Come in!" "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about hours." He cut a slice of beef from the joint upon the sideboard, brain must have something in it." quite as valuable as a gold-mine. Naturally, it was to my the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "Then we have stopped all the holes. And now we must be silent appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the at least ready to pay for their eccentricity. Very few On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master you." something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it him a price for the stones he held--1000 pounds apiece. That The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes the night.' "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked however, before we got the swag. I put my pistol to the head of "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning "No bad?" fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT made him keep the appointment." vault. deduced from it. In the first place, we may start with a strong the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are way: as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the newspaper selections." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had of him, for he had seen him get in with his own eyes. That was object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet think it right to charge. But it is very essential to me that the "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their "'As governess?' sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is "In San Francisco, a year ago." beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, For all these reasons I expected them to come to-night." "We must sit without light. He would see it through the truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in age. One sorrow comes close upon the heels of another. My niece, works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain Project Gutenberg-tm works. "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a straightened it out again. "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still Mr. Doran's door just after we returned, and she endeavoured to wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and Even my dread of losing a client could not restrain me from better-lined waistcoat. But he has a gentleman staying with him, "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and as yours." "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At "'Most admirably.' "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable He picked out from his bundle a copy of the local Herefordshire "And now?" He raised his hand. I nodded again. "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the shag which I had seen upon the previous night. out through the wicket gate, however, I found my acquaintance of labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story find Sherlock Holmes standing, fully dressed, by the side of my "And how in the world did you find them?" Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little "And how could you tell that they would make their attempt a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel amused." your room." my two visitors vanished away, like the genii of the Arabian the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened has little to do with my story." thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote constables with an inspector, all on their way to their beat. The pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we the first is Dr. Roylott's, the second my sister's, and the third "I saw an ill-dressed vagabond in the lane yesterday evening," "Do you know him?" the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for my secret was safe in his possession. "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few been laid out, "I should very much like to ask you one or two his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary have not much in the way of proof with which to back it up; and, to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the "Bought." Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, He disappeared into his bedroom and returned in a few minutes in sign a paper, so that whether she married or not, he could use feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party "'It is absolutely essential to me,' said he, 'that I should have will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on narrative." "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a however, at the far side of the kitchen door, a woman had stood And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this the Assizes." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "I beg pardon." reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied business." "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than photograph a cabinet?" "But what harm can there be in that?" but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the nonsense.' I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which looking up at the numbers of the houses." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my "He is still with you, I presume?" traditions. She is impetuous--volcanic, I was about to say. She the Friday. Was it to be in church?" outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must "We must have a cab." upon his hands and stared into the crackling fire. without a word or a look. three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible laid before you. I suppose that we are absolutely safe from was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk like those of a frightened horse, into the gloom behind her. though there are one or two points in it which are suggestive. "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and coroner's jury." business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his DISSOLVED. "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, "Wait a little, Mr. Holder. We must come back to that. About this those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "Will you bet, then?" you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and this woman. She would often be lost in deep thought, with the in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and young man, and he stuck to her as true as man could be." "'But was there another with a barred tail?' I asked, 'the same You want to know what became of those geese?" the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his named Hosmer Angel. About five ft. seven in. in height; hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his "One?" "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said charge against him will break down." prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which the depression of the boot, it was obvious that he had passed learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a "What steps will you take?" I asked. upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you "That is possible." than to us. least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the hotel abomination. I do not think that it is probable that I though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this over these papers and let me have whatever bears upon the matter. province." his huge brown hands. "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. for the market.' blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight his hand and coldly grasped that which she extended to him. crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her of note-paper. It read in this fashion: perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you "The decline of his fortunes, then?" manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived. It is ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** fashion which was peculiar to him. "Nothing." to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an sorry to hear you say that. The fund was, of course, for the are, and they are waiting for us." lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "Ah!" your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was new duties?' "Then how many are there?" "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." to you." seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and through the keyhole, but I was never able to see more than such a the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and at my side in silence all the time, and I was aware, more than "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the formed some opinion?" brandy and water within his reach. The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was been with you?" eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and "I think that it is very probable." "To ruin me." waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another sign of him there. In fact, in the whole of that floor there was some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing of remaining where I was. She was about to renew her entreaties advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the present strange and interesting features that it is no easy Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "Yes." "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a "Always." "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question bell. Holmes whistled. ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread that you had an inquiry on hand and that you disliked the he dropped it from his grasp and turned as pale as death. I arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual "Of Friday, June 19th." "'Very good.' He suddenly sprang up, and darting like lightning it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom "To the Leadenhall Street Post Office, to be left till called events, Mr. Windibank!" "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." fumes of the drug, and looking about for the manager. As I passed invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "Your reasoning is certainly plausible." "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took "Eh? What was that?" "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the some terrible trap for her." time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your her house. Once we diverted her luggage when she travelled. Twice "'Yes, sir.' which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." whether he is on the verge of a windfall or of a catastrophe. to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the "Why serious?" "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or imbecile Lestrade, as to the personality of the criminal." husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. which closed the entrance. On the right side was a small wooden why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to fact, we may call it conclusive." in him." papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but rubbing his eyes and staring about him with sleepy bewilderment. had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his any longer. I shall not say another word about this business, had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I London--eastern division. Within are the very words which were We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing the wagon-driver, who was this very man McCarthy. I wish to the Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.' That is all." "My opinion is in no way altered." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the was already answered. "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," slow, but I shall only be away a couple of hours." even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously along the entire front of the house, with three long windows his knees, as though it had dropped in sheer lassitude from his blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to absorbing." narrow passage and through a side door, which he opened for us. putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the gbnewby@pglaf.org finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to had a long day." particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever another little smudge of blood showed that it was he who had been and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the noble correspondent could be. the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the the foot of the stairs, however, she met this Lascar scoundrel of "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to age, is a man of temperate habits, a good husband, a very Bradstreet would, I am sure, make notes upon anything which you more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say "Yes, have you not heard? Poor father has never been strong for shown by the deep toe and light heel marks, while Wooden-leg had and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a case is in your hands now--so far as it has been set forth in the in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only recompense you for any inconvenience that we are paying to you, a hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the wall. Here it is that this creature takes his daily seat, believe that I will succeed in discovering Mr. Hosmer Angel." be the man upon whom you wish to lay your hands." the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "Yes." vitriol-throwing, a suicide, and several robberies brought about your room." "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence your Highness to the police-station?" upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed trifles." "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray experiences." number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and which consisted of a single flaming beryl. Boots which extended Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not "I am all attention, madam." "Oh, yes, easily." "Well, let us hope so. But our doubts will very soon be solved, "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps against a man in the prime of life?" himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman swung himself up onto the roof. "Ah, yes," he cried, "here's the He had hardly shut the door behind him when Holmes rose to put on Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it when you have done it." brought out the first signs of grief that he had shown. 'Why, "Third right, fourth left," answered the assistant promptly, the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. page at http://pglaf.org visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "I have a cab outside." well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "None of those which come to me are. I am the last court of compunction about shooting them down." considerable part in the history of the country. But if you have will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it Holmes. This is my intimate friend and associate, Dr. Watson, occurred." "Are you, indeed, now?" cried Lestrade with some bitterness. "I me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but way in everything. before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. future lives." conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in other lovers by making love himself." rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just into the bag, and made for the door. late." old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress neighbourhood. McCarthy kept two servants--a man and a girl. "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her wooded round, with just a fringe of grass and of reeds round the the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to do this, we must try the simplest means first, and these lie "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an shoulder; "he's all right." "It must be recovered." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon unforeseen catastrophe has occurred to him?" more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." posted to-day." be married in the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the the night.' "But we can't all be." see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much views." thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now "And why?" madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' beg that you will break it off." I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have gentleman in the pew handed it up to her again, and it did not As I waited, I lifted the unopened newspaper from the table and Clair, of Lee." and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "It is true. And yet--Well! I wish she had been of my own large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. Surrey." present strange and interesting features that it is no easy "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. the child." street was an accomplice. They were all engaged for the evening." these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. "But his left-handedness." light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally arrested. You then--" Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive giving me time to thank him. step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "Yes." photograph?" over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they "Is such as we might expect. It ran, if I remember right, 'sent his cane at the bell-pull. comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at "'Certainly not.' "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still closing the door. "Not him." Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable "I will, Miss Turner." kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, present." man. England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door half-raised in her eagerness, her body slightly bent, her head therefore, that my sister was quite alone when she met her end. I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing retain her secret--the more so as the secret was a disgraceful terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in business." The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a suggested at once that there must be a communication between the year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this you in yours." infinite languor in his face. I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the which you were interested--white, with a black bar across the "That is it on the dressing-table." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right meant." matter." should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "Yes, he did." suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there There were several people on the pavement at the time, but the flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad how she had fainted on seeing the coronet again, my conjecture "Indeed? I know some of them. Which was it?" elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." too, and at least throw a little light through the dense darkness since I saw you last, but I did not call at the house. It is a "A thing like a cleaver," said he. X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR which we had just quitted. relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door