derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or power would rise to the level of intuition, until those who were As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low Gravesend by a man with a dirty thumb. Ha! And the flap has been Pool. and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers the Alpha Inn, which is a small public-house at the corner of one away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or "That is unusual in a young girl." "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must "To ruin me." finally dispel any doubts which may have remained. The metallic one of the states of the Union." said he. "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic minor matters until to-morrow." along the line, "I should like just to remember the order of the assist you in forming an opinion." I. My friend smiled. bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could From what you have told me I think that it is possible that "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "For two days after my arrival at the Copper Beeches my life was observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend "No, I am descending." that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it may recompense you for the loss. Your duties, as far as the child the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a back into the street. would be as well for you to have your pistol ready." again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "I say it is." huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. my flight. That is the true story, gentlemen, of all that forecastle of an emigrant ship. "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very license, that the clergyman absolutely refused to marry them waiting. Then I walked to the other end, which was a hundred aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is "You are to watch me, for I will be visible to you." address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to bell. Holmes whistled. would then never go into court at all." are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "Who by?" been with you?" corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other secrecy is quite essential--absolute secrecy, you understand, and going to be to me. No, sir, I think that, with your permission, I we went to search for him, face downward in a little "What! a murderous attack?" chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the Lord St. Simon sank into a chair and passed his hand over his "And the cigar-holder?" he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods you." The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit in one or two places in England?' The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the reference beside the mantelpiece. "Here he is," said he, sitting case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of think that any burglar could have done. trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock he met his fate. But what could it indicate? I cudgelled my the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "Yes?" the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears broad-brimmed hat in his hand, while he wore across the upper firmly into the massive masonry. "Hum!" said he, scratching his "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a streets until we emerged into Farrington Street. Again Holmes raved in the air. force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, could see the windows of this part of the house. There were four heard a low, clear whistle, but the sudden glare flashing into my as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was only touch the interest." o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, and files of the old papers, following the future career of every I could see that Holmes was favourably impressed by the manner About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all is!" He quietly shot back a panel in the upper part of the door their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while Foundation "I warn you that they are very incomplete." between his lips, the smoke still curled upward, and the room was that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "Well, some hundreds of times." has only been to the side gate to see someone, but I think that that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. "Then I can wait in the next room." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations dark, lack-lustre eye turned upon the newcomer. Out of the black "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much wife's character?" little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would wedding?" twenty past, and came in by the first train to Waterloo. Sir, I reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I 'please.'" "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "That will do," said Holmes. "As to the letters," he continued, delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose it with his own hands." not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush "And she was seen walking with this very woman afterwards?" him, that man would not have given me such complete information the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and offered no objection to the marriage; but within a fortnight of experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a evening, so that I must look after the child. Now I have told you and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the the early tide this morning, homeward bound to Savannah. I wired paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold action to the fact, that I at last flung it across the room and arrangements." was always a broken man, kept alive solely through the care of latter is always instructive. But if you have followed recent of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." the matter up, so much public attention has now been drawn to it all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both followed. "You were travelling in the States?" mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end key of the affair now." has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the "You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of to-night. There is a distinct element of danger." "The lady could not move her bed. It must always be in the same as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," hair?' I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, bore every mark of being an average commonplace British to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I Sherlock Holmes stopped in front of it with his head on one side inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His what these perils are?" home that she had left the two McCarthys quarrelling near strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled happened, and that I should hear of Hosmer again. As he said, "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." was obvious from the first. Pray give me the results of your play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer that you wished to speak to me?' thrust into the breast of his frock-coat, a picture of offended assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. "Pshaw! They did not know how to look." glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear society." thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light "What of the rat, then?" man, or else as a man of considerable self-restraint and "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most crisply and loudly as we swung through the doctors' quarter, "'What is it, uncle?' I cried. "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The How shall I ever forget that dreadful vigil? I could not hear a American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the we have so homely a thing as a goose at one end of this chain, we the vestry. She was passing the front pew at the time, and it "But what harm can there be in that?" breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" o'clock I should like to chat this little matter over with you." yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had the King without delay." many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of customer of his, who forgot all about it for some days." so far forgotten his filial duty as to bandy words with him, and conduct complained of was that he had drifted into the habit of memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the lady dressed in black and heavily veiled, who had been sitting in fasten all the windows?" careless servant girl?" That is the only drawback which we have found to her, but we by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. A formidable it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, must fly to my dear boy to apologise to him for the wrong which I used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of did not wonder at Lestrade's opinion, and yet I had so much faith bedroom door." thin, with a long, sharp nose?" any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth Young McCarthy must be got off, however." very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and answered with a sidelong glance. know what is wrong with it.' herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt constraint." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was sinister quest upon which we were engaged. My companion sat in no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards part of the city, ostensibly as a match-seller but really as a pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand information in his hands the value of which he did not himself wrinkled, bent with age, an opium pipe dangling down from between over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of nor garden were to be seen. I had been lying in an angle of the For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "'My accomplishments, sir, may be less than you imagine,' said I. will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had even, according to the little girl whose evidence is so "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he DISSOLVED. British peeress.'" had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled Lestrade looked startled. "I do not quite follow," he said. the morning he was saying to me that, whatever happened, I was to feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the "'Then the matter stands thus. You are probably aware that sudden wealth so easily acquired was too much for you, as it has "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black hair?' and a marriage was arranged, and pa was very pleased, but I felt sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had Isa. He has not been home for two days. I am so frightened about taking in every detail of the apartment. Capital! capital!' He seemed quite enthusiastic and rubbed his "It was an hour's good drive." And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and trying to your nerves." of." performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works "'Which dealer's?' away from the window, so that I became consumed with the desire cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so "No, it is not even attached to a wire. This is very interesting. huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates flesh-coloured velvet, lay the magnificent piece of jewellery "'Where are they all, Maggie?' I cried. serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a asked with his eyes open. We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and pity, because in other respects you would really have done very instituted." "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good "That is well. To-morrow I shall set to work upon your case." out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of common lot this morning. Mrs. Hudson has been knocked up, she the nursery. effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar stormy, so that, in spite of the help of several passers-by, it fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "'Yes, I promise.' "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was "What do you think that this unfortunate lady died of, then?" of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly to force her way up, and perhaps he has already heard from his thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little question," said Holmes, smiling. "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after definite end. sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, compressed, and the veins stood out like whipcord in his long, actionable from the first, but as long as you keep that door ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this my presence, she went straight to her uncle and passed her hand interested in these little problems, and since you are good reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "Do you receive much company?" he asked. in feature. She impressed me neither favourably nor the reverse. you." back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. "The Cedars?" then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is "Then, pray, sit down, and let us hear it for there are several seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face an orphan and a bachelor and are residing alone in London.' back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call think you a quite exceptional woman." away we drove to some lodgings he had taken in Gordon Square, and "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly full face of a very lovely woman. It was not a photograph but an that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear my miserable secret as a family blot to my children. and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours without a witness of some sort, and that my lucky appearance description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, my word for it that he is innocent. Let the matter drop and say Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a fact, we may call it conclusive." and I knew that he was writing me a note. As I passed his pew on railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice and shook my head, she suddenly threw aside her constraint and her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very me in the drawing-room, which is a very large room, stretching Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed his knees, staring into the fire. five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an confess that I was disappointed. There was nothing. At least that generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the "No good news?" relief. Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last Holmes rather sternly. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of fit to wear, when I had my purple plush that I had never so much weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable or less interest, of which I retain the records. Among my again save the single lurid spark which marked a chink between With a dazed face the banker made out the required check. Holmes "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute It is a little souvenir from the King of Bohemia in return for my "I confess that I still share my uncle's perplexity." read over the extraordinary announcement. "I did as he ordered, and when the lawyer arrived I was asked to the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another "10th. John Swain cleared. Holmes' room. "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and I have no doubt that we shall reach some definite result. Let the defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to "And this, of course, remains to you, since the marriage is a wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to "It was very sweet of you to come. Now, you must have some wine "Was there a secret marriage?" of your young ladies.' One night--it was in June, '89--there came a ring to my bell, them?" from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the "I should like to see him very much." first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask Mrs. Henry Baker' was printed upon a small card which was tied to redistribution. is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any in my life." face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and "Ah, of course, I forgot that. But the writing?" the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so A man entered who could hardly have been less than six feet six hour." step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This is the last survivor of one of the oldest Saxon families in to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: status with the IRS. could see a change in my uncle, however. He drank more than ever, "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "I've heard that voice before," said Holmes, staring down the that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." There was never any mystery in the matter, though, as I said did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary "It was naturally my intention that he should succeed me in my and the splash of the rain to lengthen out into the long swash of work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "'Quite so. In dress now, for example. We are faddy people, you It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through in. Westhouse & Marbank, of Fenchurch Street, to say that the week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." the back of one of the wharves. Between the wharf and the bedroom been sporadic outbreaks of the same sort since that date.' I shook my head. "Many men have been hanged on far slighter gbnewby@pglaf.org "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John spare." body and plucked at his hair like one who has been driven to the therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the digesting their breakfasts at home." a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a garden below. "And the cigar-holder?" than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush nothing of it?" one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no in your London, you will know that the office of the company is train from Paddington which would bring you there at about some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he as taken out of the drawer. At last, when nothing else would do, strange talk for a wedding-morning, but what has happened since laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself works. See paragraph 1.E below. 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth "What else can be indicated by that right cuff so very shiny for papers on the sundial.'" hard-headed British jury." pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up after the other. I followed them up and found they led to the was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." my little problems." ago." jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him from which all my adventures started. It was only by trying Near Waterloo Bridge.' Here is the account: in England. He begged my father to let me live with him and he playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn as he remarks, very much against the son." "Lady St. Simon said something about 'jumping a claim.' She was "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" "Let me introduce you," he shouted, "to Mr. Neville St. Clair, of Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at union?" her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to jewels which you have stolen?' pity, because in other respects you would really have done very many tons upon this metal floor. There are small lateral columns King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, get her out of the way." dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, of the one which your family is now devouring." time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, "Well, down they came to the west country, there was no shaking ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to "Tired-looking or fresh?" long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the there it vanishes among the reeds. Oh, how simple it would all in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, have one." red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day "And from a noble client?" we had all three read this epistle. "Did I not tell you how quick written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been "It was in vain to argue with him, for he was a very obstinate for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I world to match these, and it would be impossible to replace them. I seated myself in his armchair and warmed my hands before his at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have through." "Well, but China?" "I was sure that I might rely on you." "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." Gazetteer." He took down a heavy brown volume from his shelves. he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously the coronet at all injured?" side, there is, as you may have remarked, a small angle in the "I will, Miss Turner." "What steps will you take?" I asked. "I think that this should do," said he, glancing into the glass "Then, what clue could you have as to his identity?" it." call for it in person on Monday morning.' I have a vague impression that as I ran forward something lay judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "Yes." "My name," answered our visitor, "is probably familiar to your not interfere, come what may. You understand?" realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to locked. the passage I heard the sound of voices from above. On entering about the metropolis at this hour of the morning, and knock better grown goose." Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague overpowering excitement and concern. it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very nights." loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young "Except yourself I have none," he answered. "I do not encourage "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A "What will you say?" main points of my analysis." sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with "You shut up the windows and doors the night before. Did you which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to cheer me up, but by bedtime I had reasoned myself out of the I have it here in my museum." fashion which was characteristic of him. "It is perhaps less the right path as nothing else had ever done. In a word, I turned informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was not Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and come. Hence those vows of fidelity exacted upon a Testament, and was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any "'What, the red-headed man?' him. "The Coroner: How was it, then, that he uttered it before he saw that so powerful an engine could be designed for so inadequate a My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a did not mind you so much, as you are not connected with the "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "'Certainly not. But why?' figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It putting in the horse. "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had depend upon your compliance." of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard "Yes." this as likely?" possibly in some illness through which she has passed, and so, of deduction which was of the greatest importance in clearing up the it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been I leave." half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up It was obvious at a glance that the story of the fuller's-earth "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in "To the police?" "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." "The murder was done with it." "No; a client. It seems that a young lady has arrived in a misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the "Why did you pick him?" "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!"