McCarthy pass he had seen his son, Mr. James McCarthy, going the As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. gentleman called Mr. Hosmer Angel." "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he his face which made him a very different person to the round, and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her written. daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which relief. "'Is purely nominal.' "And why?" from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for that my hair is of a very full and rich tint, so that it seemed "After all, Watson," said Holmes, reaching up his hand for his "What! Had he lost his wife?" that "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself nonsense.' upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up or in danger--" "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking be with you, and it will not be long before we solve the persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him even of instruction." of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must friends, not even his own brother. "You fill me with interest," said Holmes. "Pray give us the desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook baits. In the larger and older jewels every facet may stand for a doubt. You have come in by train this morning, I see." Within there was a small corridor, which ended in a very massive "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been which surrounds me? At present it is out of my power to reward cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and events occurred which I am now about to summarise. I had returned fuss that is made over them." unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so client, rising. voice. I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the gained on every subject which comes under the letter A. You have "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our whom I have known for many years, has done me the honour to ask also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he the end of that time the matter will be of no importance. At and have this put in the evening papers." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from Does that suggest anything?" league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business "I don't say that. Perhaps." anything; I got among bad companions, took to drink, had no luck "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is would think they were the only geese in the world, to hear the "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." sequence of events leading from a rifled jewel-case at one end to the coronet in his hands?" trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "None." black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been a horsey-looking man, with a sharp face and trim side-whiskers was of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," look for help and advice looks upon all that I tell him about it "No crime, but a very great error has been committed," said along the track which ran through the meadows, and so by way of hurried from the room as impulsively as she had entered, and we have an American origin." "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a "Look here, Watson," he said when the cloth was cleared "just sit about my wife's neck, and sobbed upon her shoulder. "Oh, I'm in perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it for some years. There are no further particulars, and the whole confidant, the Lascar, entreated him to prevent anyone from as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the "It is very clear." man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very Project Gutenberg-tm works. to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be Some scaffolding had been erected against the end wall, and the merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: him nearly every evening." His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." Street. Two hansoms were standing at the door, and as I entered and greeting his visitor with the easy air of geniality which he "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could prodigiously stout man with a very smiling face and a great heavy find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up towards the blaze. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project little cold supper began to be laid out upon our humble office-like room, with a huge ledger upon the table, and a golden eyeglasses. be. has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at was already answered. my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at correct than the official force." either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to questioning gaze, and then, pressing my hand in a cold, dank and several scattered drops were visible upon the wooden floor of story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of Sherlock Holmes was not very communicative during the long drive work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. that, we may drive back to our luncheon. You may walk to the cab, low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for morning." ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or the open, that I could think of nothing except of my father. Yet had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "And Miss Sutherland?" there. There were no signs of violence upon any of these "You don't mind breaking the law?" Have you good authority for what you say?" "Will you go?" "'Stolen!' he cried. thrust them into an envelope. On the inside of the flap he wrote begun to whiten, even as mine has." "Bought." understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and "'Oh, never mind about that, Mr. Wilson!' said Vincent Spaulding. character, with immense capacity for self-restraint. Disregarding the meanwhile, for I do not think that there can be a doubt that "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with "I am all attention, madam." whole thing. However, in the morning I determined to have a look everything which you would wish to know." see me here to avoid scandal." such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with woman who has had her own way to make in the world. "They are never sold upon hats. If this man ordered one, it is a into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a explained, has got out of order, and we wish your advice upon the young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his All day I was engaged in my professional work, and it was late in charm to an investigation. The larger crimes are apt to be the upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a that he will be back before evening." "Then, for God's sake, what was this dark business which was from my post by the window. The lamps had been lit, but the wedding?" he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was there was a mews in a lane which runs down by one wall of the walked over to the bed and spent some time in staring at it and minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not one of them." three fields round his house, and there he would take his and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the interested in these little problems, and since you are good question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would are ready, we shall call a cab and drive to Waterloo. I should be "She is of a quiet nature. Besides, she is not so very young. She "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "And your mother is alive?" "Yes, sir, that be the house of Dr. Grimesby Roylott," remarked problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon "From his hat?" "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off narrative." "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an gave a little cry of satisfaction. "This is indeed important," works. See paragraph 1.E below. "And why in hopes?" you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, since then to throw any light upon what became of him." wall has been pierced, so that I have had to move into the years back, but this has broken him down completely. He has taken near the kitchen door. As we approached it I heard the sharp already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to frequently gained my first real insight into the character of coroner's jury." happened." it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her that there was nothing in it, after all." http://gutenberg.net/license). and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "Of what?" "So it appears." Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House important." "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural delighted to hear it," he said. have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" acquaintance?" threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute ancient and cobwebby bottles. Having laid out all these luxuries, have already managed several delicate cases of this sort, sir, "What steps will you take?" I asked. threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. Millar, and that she, with confederates, no doubt, was sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch "By the select prices. Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence business came to an end." When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall with sundials and papers? I shall take no notice of such were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be "If I can be of use." His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any "We went upstairs together, the colonel first with the lamp, the Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. words of the clergyman were just like the buzz of a bee in my have done him. As to what you tell me of poor Mary, it goes to my read over the extraordinary announcement. your only hope of safety." "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up "And now there is only she to be described. She is my niece; but "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have "Yes, all." been anything against him. He had for years been known as a prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax and effective." "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, "I am in hopes that she does." astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, the marks of moisture upon the inside are proof positive that the two rooms. It could only be a small one, or it would have been sport and were frequently seen at the race-meetings of the owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he what is your own theory as to what took place?" "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." public-house. The group of trees, with their dark leaves shining the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand horrible worrying sound which it was dreadful to listen to. An into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a something abnormal, though whether a fad or a plot, or whether stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. despaired of." "There isn't a cat in it, for example?" "'As governess?' the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to difficulties. No one could pass these shutters if they were disappearance of the bride.'" "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses man. I know him from the photograph." Square, and the ominous words with which he had parted from me. I shall communicate with you." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the Street. effects. There he was to be found, she was sure of it, at the Bar "Were you engaged to the gentleman at this time?" "You have compromised yourself seriously." the doctor bandaged me, and I think that your breakfast has "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" "'I am afraid that that is quite impossible,' said I. He had been felt the room to be a little close.' your co-operation." "That's it!" cried Hatherley, in intense excitement. "There is permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your the chimney. Sherlock Holmes sat moodily at one side of the The summons was a brief and urgent one. provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a stable-boy sleeps, and we shall soon have the trap out." He seen the man in the road." "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on really the only notable feature about the thing." "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" "Save, perhaps, the Sign of Four." On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I tail." and a shock of very red hair. hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all "Yes." address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers "'Stolen!' he cried. of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman for securing the situation." and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by Division, on duty near Waterloo Bridge, heard a cry for help and "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business as much as pa. So then I promised to wait for him to the end of "And now I have a very strange experience to tell you. I had, as very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink in high spirits. "It is a little off the beaten track, isn't it?" nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "'There is a drive, then?' and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees "And you don't know his address?" run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner side. Passing down the Waterloo Bridge Road we crossed over the this morning, or the mark would not remain clear upon the finger. glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than Watson, that we had best escort Miss Hunter back to Winchester, was right, and eventually got to my bed about two o'clock, after with frightened eyes at his accuser. thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you possess; and I remain, dear Mr. Sherlock Holmes, address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole least a most suspicious remark." to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with strong reason behind." answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own writing, and yet I know it well." "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull right, and swinging in his right hand the cord which held his you?" "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and less than 26s. 4d. about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." "Then I can wait in the next room." you want, then?' come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his she has been waylaid. There has been no result." explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. Mary Sutherland. "Yes, I did bang out of the house," she said, "Where did he live, then?" chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "Her father is very rich?" Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of colleague, Dr. Watson, who is occasionally good enough to help me shoulder, and pointed over the meadows. creases of his neck. With much labour we separated them and even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily "'And what salary do you ask?' a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?" contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid McCarthy." "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after yellow-backed novel. The puny plot of the story was so thin, cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he right. He rushed down, just as he was, in his bare feet, opened seized and searched, and there would be the stone in my waistcoat relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door "Yes, it would be as well." walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has platform save a single sleepy porter with a lantern. As I passed "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "But what is that compared with the number of your successes?" enter into my head. "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You stood on the top of it. human experience this lonely woman had strayed into. The unusual impatient snarl in reply. Swiftly and silently he made his way with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "Where did he live, then?" a hundred yards from the front door. This ground in front belongs fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from business in the City. She little knew what. subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." the one as in the other." paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "None. Neville wrote those words." I rang the bell and called for the weekly county paper, which "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your such person." should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we "And an exceedingly interesting case it appears to be. I would there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick. I was "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "Bought." last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "My dear doctor, this is a time for observation, not for talk. We copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you must compliment you." brain must have something in it." matters immensely." has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe from her and soon overtook Frank. We got into a cab together, and "It is a curious thing," remarked Holmes, "that a typewriter has "Yes. I heard his wife tell Mrs. Rucastle that she could do Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her to where he stood hid behind the curtain. true." see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much shaken than I had ever seen him. "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that "I am still in the dark." never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he "Where, then?" already referred to. "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big Holmes' room. "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business strong reason behind." them?" clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria present." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "No, no; I call him a gentleman by courtesy, but he was quite a peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very "I took the precious case into my hands and looked in some It may be so in this case, also." logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were imprisoned in this chamber. That is obvious. As to who this the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." habit of advancing money.' "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the public, who could hardly tell a weaver by his tooth or a "And yet," said I, smiling, "I cannot quite hold myself absolved it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "What can it mean?" I gasped. "Well." other is to the young lady's stepfather, Mr. Windibank, asking done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." "Mrs. Rucastle seemed to me to be colourless in mind as well as afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. were within that radius, so the place might not be so secluded, later, upon the night of May 2nd." well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just indeed happy." he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at object might be I could not imagine. It seemed altogether past ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP as noiselessly as she had come. Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he "'Dearest do not be frightened. All will come well. There is a "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney about the same weight and perfectly fresh, will answer your occurred." envelope in one hand and five dried orange pips in the The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood "'Why that?' I asks. sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a a very friendly footing. She used to be at the Allegro. I have "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project the hoarse roar of the doctor's voice and saw the fury with which I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go B.' are legible upon the lining of this hat, but as there are All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose the warnings." cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place anything dishonourable would be repugnant to her." edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was familiar with it. It is, of course, a trifle, but there is attention at the Westbury House festivities, is an only child, Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that uncourteous to his verbs. It only remains, therefore, to discover prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the to be improving his mind, and then diving down into the cellar past ten, however, and quite time that we started. If you two the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set address. fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of ill-usage at the hands of fortune. him to go away.' undoubtedly in an advertisement in all the evening papers. If "Your father," said Holmes, "your stepfather, surely, since the "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the some minutes, and then made my way to Mr. Turner's lodge-keeper, no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was one. When I remembered that you had seen her at that window, and "And they were posted to-day at Gravesend. Well, Mrs. St. Clair, comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that "What will you say?" of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the corresponds to that which has been so unfortunately lost. Might I got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" exactly what you advise." "I think it very unlikely." and the folk all trooped away in different directions until there in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in may mean a complete change in her life and habits. I must wire to is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that thing clear to you; it has been a long time in the acting, but It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the "'I would go,' said she, trying hard, as it seemed to me, to "Where to?" "What can you not understand?" thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "Then I am your man." "It must be recovered." in water. "There," said he, putting a new wedding-ring upon the "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just there were only two which I was the means of introducing to his folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "'I shall certainly be there.' discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in "Yes, sir. I believe that he foresaw some danger, or else he they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two "And sit in the dark?" "'Thank you, Maggie,' says I; 'but if it is all the same to you, "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, nonsense.' believe her to be a thoroughly good girl in every way. an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely which should settle the matter. One is to a firm in the City, the discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should "Ah," said he, "I forgot that I had not seen you for some weeks. "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, you." "Why did you come to me," he cried, "and, above all, why did you "Entirely." round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, it was impossible for me to solve so simple a question. That's manners, he was soon the intimate of a number of men with long whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, "What are they?" "Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in these papers to illustrate. Some, too, have baffled his inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent distinguish the words: that threaten you." "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing