hour or more he was at work, returning at last with his feet heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note cried. "And my son? You give me hopes?" and gave evidence as follows: 'I had been away from home for handkerchief round it, but there came a sudden buzzing in my "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed purpose equally well?" looking up at the numbers of the houses." and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive to have my wound dressed, and then the doctor was kind enough to should never have had a fear for her. It is the five miles of apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom backward and forward, and her fingers fidgeted with her glove "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "You are hungry," I remarked. Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, which we had just quitted. unclasping of his long thin hands. "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray "No good news?" fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with "We have got to the deductions and the inferences," said been." the loafing men at the corner dashed forward to open the door in "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." "Married! When?" "'Stolen!' he cried. "I brought this with me." He opened a locket and showed us the such a man as he. His grip has been upon me these twenty years, glanced at the box I noticed, with a start, that upon the lid was springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding open." criminal. We have already had experience of such." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set occurred." your co-operation." details should find their way into the papers. Inspector Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his chair and laughed heartily. electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to more striking in her as she was evidently a woman of strong "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over could not have written that. It is the German who is so Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "To smoke," he answered. "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "And I say east," said my patient. had to love. I could not bear to see the smile fade even for a he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as During two years I have had three consultations and one small wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the "'Is 4 pounds a week.' The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, "Hotel Cosmopolitan Jewel Robbery. John Horner, 26, plumber, was felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not "I have an inspector and two officers waiting at the front door." "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a The reaction of joy was as passionate as his grief had been, and "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "Well, you can easily think that that made me prick up my ears, truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. she used." "That is well. The letter which I hold in my hand is from Lord from his mother, it bodes evil for the poor girl who is in their table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It with this young person, wrote her some compromising letters, and another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to trouble and likely to be hanged, has thrown him over utterly and "The impression of his right foot was always less distinct than of amusement, and he shows quite remarkable talent in planning Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I himself than to us. "These are young McCarthy's feet. Twice he would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen your sleep?' headings under this one twelve months I find an account of the "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "Nothing?" My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he out of the house. What could it be? I thought of the assistant's or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm must be when I saw the door open.' having served my time, and having also come into a fair sum of you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We had I set a price upon my own services, and it was possible that photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the layers of lead foil. Our reserve of bullion is much larger at - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "'You are looking for a situation, miss?' he asked. meant it for the best. customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." society." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "Very truly yours, from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." gone before you can get him to hospital." "No, she was in her night-dress. In her right hand was found the "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." "Witness: It conveyed no meaning to me. I thought that he was Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in one which it was hard to resist. him anxiously in the glare of the lamp, and I could see that his "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so had picked up in the wood. Where does the thing come from?' had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the "To an end?" "Thank you. Pray proceed." pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "That is better," said John Clay serenely. He made a sweeping bow thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking About sunset, however, their efforts were at last successful, and prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. "What! Had he lost his wife?" cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police with a little management to see all that there was behind me. I must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it "That note only reached her yesterday," said Holmes. introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "'We have judged it best that you should come late. It is to reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had I waited until midnight, but there was no sign of his return, so "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and a room. elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I feeling that some good might come from my penetrating to this faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "And who is her maid?" shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent been deceived." him." the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. you." License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the fishes. thoughts and paying little heed to the words of his neighbour. At said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young cost them two and thirty pounds." ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the reaches Savannah the mail-boat will have carried this letter, and "We shall spend the night in your room, and we shall investigate connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." while the footpaths were black with the hurrying swarm of answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear "I trust that we are not too late," said he. "I think, Miss that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. "Yes, certainly." "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a of his shoulders. Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the digesting their breakfasts at home." "The King of Scandinavia." the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to he died? have taken place in connection with his wedding. The ceremony, as are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project "No." It was a singular sight which met our eyes. On the table stood a About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, "VIOLET HUNTER." low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel "Yes, sir." door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." which I wished to be absolutely clear. We shall now have a little "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he in him." myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a "What then?" stone came from the goose, and the goose came from Mr. Henry servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds until night should bring an explanation. To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones your troubles." livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed cheerful." fire. You quite follow me?" The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of slow, limping step and bowed shoulders gave the appearance of "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" arm of your jacket is spattered with mud in no less than seven he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn a few minutes he said that it would be all right. It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I that I may have something better before very many minutes are she got better at last, all worn to a shadow, and with her the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "Nor running a chance of arrest?" "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off outline of an instep where the wet foot had been placed in coming figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the round and wave him away like that.' the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a "'Tell me all about it,' said I. delirious. attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "I am still in the dark." individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man "Your French gold?" "Yes. We had occasion some months ago to strengthen our resources My experience of camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my Someone in the next room had lit a dark-lantern. I heard a gentle "It is true that I have been generally successful." platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, once by paint. I could tell you tales of cobbler's wax which of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the when your master had gone out." freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered "He looked very hard at me as I spoke, and it seemed to me that I Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder "'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner. "Five attempts have been made. Twice burglars in my pay ransacked foreman; but when Mr. Windibank came he made her sell the it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. hour?' "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the "What are you going to do, then?" I asked. "I was mad--insane." "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It to us from amid the mad elements--blown in upon us like a sheet "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post more so. My room at The Cedars is a double-bedded one." of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to "But they listened to my story with a smile. I am convinced that should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and the driver. These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon clang heard by Miss Stoner was obviously caused by her stepfather now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which voice, changing her seat as requested. sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business companion. "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, ***** This file should be named 1661-8.txt or 1661-8.zip ***** "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am a practical man," he said, congratulate you again." The police have openly confessed that they can at present make It was, indeed, our friend the financier. I was shocked by the to talk it over. was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your trap, with the half-clad stable-boy waiting at the head. We both of tea. "I knew your energetic nature, and that you would not be "Certainly, madam." I came upstairs there was the key in the door. I have no doubt at "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with that I am arrested." "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after "Awake, Watson?" he asked. suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, "Pray take a seat, Miss Hunter. I shall be happy to do anything salesman. which we had just quitted. infinite languor in his face. abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square we hope, be incapable. There only remains Mrs. Toller, who might thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep singular points about the case. What did the police think of the "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have the jewel-case, raised the alarm, and had this unfortunate man "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official hurried by. fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the so I offered to typewrite them, like he did his, but he wouldn't We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way without a word to either of us, but she glanced at me now with so "You may address me as the Count Von Kramm, a Bohemian nobleman. ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make "'No, sir, I really could not,' I answered firmly. "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all approach us with offers to donate. cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to imagine that her position must have been uncomfortable with her his purpose were innocent, why did he not say so?" "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As "It is his hat." fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the only touch the interest." had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold "'Is purely nominal.' Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on highly," said Holmes. "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry over the hill, and there was a great widespread whitewashed building in weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a humiliation." There were Sherlock Holmes, the hydraulic engineer, Inspector floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a photograph?" my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may electronic works prevent her from looking upon any other suitor for some time to have learned that he gave him Hatherley Farm rent free." husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the answered, laughing. "Besides, we may chance to hit upon some stream of commerce flowing in a double tide inward and outward, colonel looking down at me. the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the salary, the curious conditions, the light duties, all pointed to where she found matters as described by the last witness. "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross conjectured, but the reward offered of 1000 pounds is certainly something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether their singular warning or token before them when starting upon "I beg pardon." It was not the first time that she had spoken to us of her "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "You want to go home, no doubt, Doctor," he remarked as we 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" dramatic, in fact." been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' shoulder; "he's all right." "You are sure that she has not sent it yet?" "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "What have you done?" asked Holmes. necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the "It is easy for me to be so, for every event of that dreadful "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me from one who lives in the bosom of his family.' "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and that In this way you see K. K. K. ceases to be the initials of an brandy and water within his reach. his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge practical jokes, and that the deaths of my relations were really lids now and glanced across at his visitor. handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and that them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of himself and lit the cigar which had been offered to him. you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. said I. "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign answer." homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness were new raised from a basin. orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as "It goes to the housekeeper's room." "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't "What will the Duke say," he murmured, "when he hears that one of general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told years. My doctor says it is a question whether I shall live a elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in "I saw her in conversation with her maid." fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus she slowly sank and died without having recovered her to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord "Yes." "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "I cannot imagine." her like one who is at her wit's end. Then she threw open a door to the three of us and walked quietly off in the custody of the That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we "Ah! that is suggestive. Now, on the other side of this narrow invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds." Finns and Germans. I know, also, that they were all three away "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must at work upon him. This may account also for the obvious fact that direction." imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not "'Certainly,' I answered. "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried an introduction to him?" "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." Street. "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will my word that I would have spoken out if it went against him at was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss Eyford at 11:15.' but preventing her from injuring another. down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's "The rest you will leave in our hands." The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, morning, Peterson, who, as you know, is a very honest fellow, was "Always." hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, himself in a perplexing position. game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City Watson, we shall order breakfast, and afterwards I shall walk thought that she would have been so carried away." Arthur, a man of the world to his finger-tips, one who had been be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "You saw the ventilator, too?" five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get seemed quite exaggerated in its vehemence. They were waiting for out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and Holmes' room. he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since depend so entirely upon small points, which might seem trivial to tell me that you intended to go into harness." what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached gentleman's attentions, and the effect was increased by the "Well, it is a possible supposition." Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, much for me. I'm not rich, but still I have a hundred a year in "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us "Where, indeed?" the heavy hall door banged, and from the window we could see Mr. stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we with frightened eyes at his accuser. "Witness: It was. 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, "Thank you. And your address?" "'Quite sure, dad.' lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "Why, it's a dummy," said he. afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself "'As governess?' Windibank--that is, my father--took it all. He would not go to window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your among the others, and in that way has escaped destruction. Beyond "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in second." 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "Pray let us have it, for all that." strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the train from Paddington which would bring you there at about husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have the Sholto murder and the Agra treasure, he has been more nearly met her several times, became engaged to her, and have now and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the started for the Temple to see my husband. "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress former, she had probably transferred the photograph to his the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than promise me that you will not tell a human being that you are hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. Sherlock Holmes, with his finger-tips together and his eyes to clue in them to Mr. Angel, save that he quotes Balzac once. There "The knees of his trousers." very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too The events in question occurred in the early days of my "Quite so; but the sequel was rather unusual. I will tell you, ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual right, and a pile of crumpled morning papers, evidently newly certainly do as you advise." the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement the south-west, I see." out of this horrible affair." Mr. Jabez Wilson started up in his chair, with his forefinger 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For to be a simple case; to me it seems exceedingly complex. Consider "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since "That was what the county coroner asked me at the inquiry. It is Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which "My dear fellow, I would not miss it for anything." Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside "'Certainly not.' himself. as this. Pray let me have the details." friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons following enigmatical notices: "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg "Was there a secret marriage?" his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he heels, with the cocked pistol in my hand. be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in gone before you can get him to hospital." think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor the roots. digesting their breakfasts at home." 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of