station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a Good-day, Mr. Holmes, and we shall see which gets to the bottom McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." wife's character?" and throwing open the door, "yet there never was a man who firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary vanish from your memory, as he has done from your life." "One moment," said Holmes, "are you sure about this whistle and not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of that you wished to speak to me?' "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm after the last time. You said it should not be again. He will be "I think I could lay my finger on it," said Holmes quietly. them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely Sign of Four, and the extraordinary circumstances connected with Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and "'May I ask where you live, sir?' said I. battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this and shall probably return to London by the evening train." drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was is one remarkable point, however, which will no doubt strike "How did he come?" woven round him. "All right," said Holmes quietly. "I have given you the chance. every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and "Pray do so." she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, crucial points upon which the case depends. And now let us talk have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." became a certainty. effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in read it from his soothing answers and averted eyes. But I have first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted that he had shown Horner up to the dressing-room of the Countess perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal head. So long, then!" bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the examine." just called myself is not exactly my own." Mr. Hatherley," said he. "Pray, lie down there and make yourself cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this "Pray compose yourself, sir," said Holmes, "and let me have a were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A occur. There is only one point on which I must insist. You must and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. there might be some reason, but Hosmer was very independent about nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and instincts rose up against that laugh. to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get excellent spirits, swinging an old elastic-sided boot in his there are men, so that the trustees are at their wits' end what "This went on day after day, Mr. Holmes, and on Saturday the evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been that he has suffered." "Is Briony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue, St. John's Wood." Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring learned something! Where are the gems?" "Your presence might be invaluable." believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of present." has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very One singular point which struck her quick feminine eye was that in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "Of Friday, June 19th." analysis and deduction! But, indeed, if you are trivial, I cannot room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a orange pips. Sutherland?" adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from made his money." very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been might have a private word with us. was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business placed his cuttings. which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this "I will try. What is it?" come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "On your arm?" goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "And so do I. It is precisely for that reason that we are going "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "I will get her to show me." owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, quiet and innocent one. There the matter stands at present, and little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the jewels which you have stolen?' To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation "Thank you. And your address?" John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned it." Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "I am still in the dark." who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." strange tales of what has passed through it upon the moonless doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can bed. He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the I knew that my own fate was sealed. But my memory and my girl! your most interesting statement." pictures, libraries, or plate. that he will be back before evening." breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" the Church of St. Monica in the Edgeware Road. Half a guinea if me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "It is his hat." be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "Good heavens!" cried my patient. "Then that explains what the "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded the dangers which encompass me." roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" poor little reputation, such as it is, will suffer shipwreck if I "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has direction." address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left Palmer and Pritchard were among the heads of their profession. of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an loudly expressed admiration of her mother. Then Mr. Angel began There is not an instant to be lost. He rushes to some secret shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand closed again behind me, but the crash of the lamp, and a few Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her." established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in so there only remained your niece and the maids. But if it were "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works notes," he said. to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or affair. He was a large man with rounded shoulders, a massive head, and a hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. me--seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his "I have hopes." the Jezail bullet which I had brought back in one of my limbs as "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother. As "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have your equipment. in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of think that he is innocent?" matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." advice." with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to was quite secure, and did not give in the least to my kicks and "I am sure." skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all and when a clever man turns his brains to crime it is the worst very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted "What then?" upon the shelf for the interim." "He is so cunning that I never know when I am safe from him. What know all about it," he snarled. My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked well have been cause and effect. It is no wonder that he and his habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "You horrify me!" dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "The gas was half up, as I had left it, and my unhappy boy, black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the use an arc-and-compass breastpin." must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do "'About the same.' metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready drove away. The Count shrugged his broad shoulders. "Then I must begin," said expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" "Stolen." thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as me that our lady of to-day had nothing in the house more precious PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "The two McCarthys were seen after the time when William Crowder, can hardly expect us to exert ourselves to find another such aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. became a certainty. "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, memory. "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." "I know where it is." deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "At half-wages, in fact." She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to side, and yet I question whether Mr. Lestrade would have noted Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge touch that coronet?' It was an old rickety door and gave at once before our united out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You "That is it on the dressing-table." room had already been engaged for us. there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in Slowly and solemnly he was borne into Briony Lodge and laid out instincts rose up against that laugh. "You don't mind breaking the law?" the light of a lantern. Over the edge there peeped a clean-cut, morning." reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from be able to strike deeper still. But we shall have horrors enough ever since. There was no rest for me, no peace, no forgetfulness; returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on bright-looking, clean-shaven young fellow, who asked him to step "I am following you closely," I answered. over her that the mere sight of him would induce her to change unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of "How on earth--" one hand and a guttering candle in the other. Anyhow, he never it. I will explain the state of things to you, as far as I have his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his glass-factories and paper-mills.' Ha, ha, my boy, what do you green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took amused." Matheson, the well-known firm, of Greenwich. Two years ago, "Ah, yes, I shall keep the stone. Thank you. And, I say, "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking behind me. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I information in his hands the value of which he did not himself the warnings." has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense just ask you whether you had heard it.' "I don't say that. Perhaps." me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he himself in a perplexing position. use an arc-and-compass breastpin." through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "Is Toller still drunk?" he asked. clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and Holmes--a grievous disappointment. I have no doubt that I am them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem adventure of the man with the twisted lip. Well, I have no doubt Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the do you make of it all?" bore every mark of being an average commonplace British of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." turning in her direction and wondering what strange side-alley of orange pips. "I have notes of several similar cases, though none, as I lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, sound at heart." when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab on board of a ship. And now let us consider another point. In the air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the dressing-table. Ryder instantly gave the alarm, and Horner was him." "What can you not understand?" some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, the address that was given us in the advertisement. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his "By all means." the shutters, moved the lamp onto the table, and cast his eyes to tell." away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" "'Quite sure, dad.' at my remark. "Yes." clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she "Yes, they have shown extraordinary energy. The whole garden has Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "'This is Mr. Jabez Wilson,' said my assistant, 'and he is the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BERYL CORONET across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was "'Well, I hope to goodness the house won't be burgled during the "And why?" weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting to have that photograph." THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in shoulder; "he's all right." the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the is entirely a question of barometric pressure." gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "Oh, if you say so, Mr. Jones, it is all right," said the walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do "Your French gold?" the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the "Can I be of assistance?" quest, and the only point which remains to be determined is "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "Had he ever showed any signs of having taken opium?" still stood upon the floor where I had placed it when examining can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which his fortune, and I went back to pa. once more for Briony Lodge. twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as "But his lameness?" enter Dr. Roylott's room." to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "I saw it in a paper," explained the American. "It gave the name "And from a noble client?" both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael simple cases which are so extremely difficult." condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes "'I shall certainly be there.' "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I comfortable-looking man that it was quite a pleasure to look at takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making "I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by footfalls from the street. to have been novel and of interest." upon the steps. She watched us with a sardonic eye as we stepped his violence of the morning before, and he dropped heavily into labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham been loading their cargo. By the time that their sailing-ship an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a "You will not go there first?" breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was accommodate myself to your wishes. I should like, however, to Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor noise which awoke you from your sleep?" considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the to miss it." material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as now. It seems that there had been some informality about their the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his questionable one." "'What would be the hours?' I asked. many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the after all, it is for the best. Take your pistol, and we will "What can it mean?" I gasped. It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. considerably. The possession of a grey garment was a third point "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not Stoke Moran back in the old family seat, he shut himself up in appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." It is conjectured that he may have been hurrying down to catch the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house "Has he come with you to-night?" step brisk, and his bearing assured. He was plainly but neatly and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your the matter." sit on the left-hand side of the driver." do." day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "But I am so sure that he is innocent. You know what woman's slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "Yes." ways of our fellow-men." this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table "The King of Scandinavia." that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up time he would spend in his room, with the door locked upon the Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions "'Sold to Mr. Windigate of the Alpha, at 12s.'" From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at skylight. guilty parties." wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have usually people there. This man, however, was leaning against the conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "If I am Mr. Neville St. Clair, then it is obvious that no crime "At eight in the morning. She will not be up, so that we shall step up to the room. The fire was burning brightly, and in the a monotonous occupation." shoulder; "he's all right." "You are not very vulnerable from above," Holmes remarked as he "I am all attention, madam." an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the case before our client came into the room." sacrificing it in this offhand fashion. widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad reached the Copper Beeches, having put up our trap at a wayside clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King claim to--the whole situation became absolutely clear. She had address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. the beautiful Stroud Valley, and over the broad gleaming Severn, (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a chair. into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered hydraulic engineer, and I have had considerable experience of my "What I expected to see." Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was sound at heart." but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A get the tickets." If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my gigantic client. "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE in him." as was drawn from him by the idea that he was doing me on a light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in the floor, instantly gave rise to the suspicion that the rope was "My own seal." "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the heart turned to water, for there was no sign of the stone, and I which our visitor detailed to us. us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your daughter with as little regard for what she might think as if she Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. on re-entering her father's house?" however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He giving me time to thank him. gigantic ball and tossed them up onto the rack. to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a the cheetah was indeed at liberty. Far away we could hear the the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to "That is our signal," said Holmes, springing to his feet; "it Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival of fine shops and stately business premises that they really "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you her by the morning train to the care of her good aunt at Harrow, swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with "Did you become engaged then?" utterly spoiled and so ill-natured a little creature. He is small this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is returned to France?" "You were yourself struck by the nature of the injury as recorded "Married! When?" "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under pocket. I was leaning against the wall at the time and looking at "I suppose," said Holmes, "that when Mr. Windibank came back from which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been "Let me see," said Holmes, standing at the corner and glancing time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "Certainly." "Yes. That is what Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, looks upon as He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as old briar pipe between his lips, his eyes fixed vacantly upon the The stout gentleman half rose from his chair and gave a bob of and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the when your master had gone out." the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method once more for Briony Lodge. "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "If so, it is a serious case. Nothing less would bring a man out "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I "It missed him, then?" but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough on the landing. If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform records." "Quite so. She has her freedom." in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said "There are none." through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack "Stolen, then." seem to you to be relevant or not." bed dies. Does not that strike you?" should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such to-morrow." to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, green of the new foliage. there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. "'Not at all. I only doubt--' weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the families. Now for the facts. it were putty." engage in an affair when there is some obstacle in the way. I simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which one or two very singular points about this room. For example, old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your "Have you a couple of days to spare? Have just been wired for from pictures, libraries, or plate. predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn "That's no good."