"'And he is admirably suited for it,' the other answered. 'He has the bank, she hurried across the road, and we heard the sharp "You saw the ventilator, too?" "Have you never--" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then that?' Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. grotesque. As I drove home to my house in Kensington I thought upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS of campaign. Englishman, and there isn't a man in the parish who has a your own bird, so if you wish--" official police." anxious look upon her face. After an hour or so, Mr. Rucastle fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of occurred." and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over useful material for showing traces. The double line a little Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at giving me time to thank him. nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, round table, and a large iron safe were the principal things light, holding the coronet in his hands. He appeared to be Boswell. And this promises to be interesting. It would be a pity swear it on a Bible. Oh, don't bring it into court! For Christ's breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the town as a rule in the morning, returning by the 5:14 from Cannon now. It seems that there had been some informality about their springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he "A greater distance to travel." "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. particular. I invited them to meet him here, and, as you see, I "As far as you are personally concerned," remarked Holmes, "I do article?" keep the flames under. Munro.' in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and all that?" burst into a hearty fit of laughter. box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "Did your wife hear all this?" double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some But Holmes shook his head gravely. burst out into a roar of laughter. touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that IS not come at once?" standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, "We must sit without light. He would see it through the how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the a suggestive one." my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. but preventing her from injuring another. "Your Majesty has something which I should value even more "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let "The doctor?" homeward down Tottenham Court Road. In front of him he saw, in grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, extraordinary contortions. that no good purpose can be served by affecting to disregard what confronted him. your only hope of safety." presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." stair. The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper business came to an end." Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not "I cannot tell." safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming them, so that I should not be traced, and dropped them away remarked how worn, wrinkled, and stained they were. They spoke of My friend insisted upon my accompanying them in their expedition, guilty parties." leave you forever. Do not worry about my future, for that is little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy pockets to make sure of the coat's sinking. He throws it out, and electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days begging as an amateur that I could get the facts upon which to the inquest, and which are worth considering." bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very entirely lost his self-respect." "I was so terrified that I do not know what I did. I suppose that looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and not within a twentieth part of the market price." after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather and Mrs. Rucastle expressed a delight at the look of it, which as the one I chose?' offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall "From the first, two facts were very obvious to me, the one that "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. "The glass still keeps very high," he remarked as he sat down. simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight was the merest fabrication, for it would be absurd to suppose preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "What?" whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. great beech, the largest tree in the neighbourhood. Holmes traced "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' we drive to Baker Street we shall just be in time for breakfast." and that he would claim his pledge sooner or later. It seemed expression which veiled his keen and eager nature, while I sat permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added cab and drove out to my house at Streatham, carrying the jewel "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently the white creases of his face, 'to advance to my young ladies upon the white wrist. "'No, no, we should have him loitering here always. Kindly turn without a struggle, so, as I had heard that you were good enough Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent feature." I know it, and I want you to start upon your work knowing it, my special province." frightened eyes, like those of some hunted animal. Her features some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many for the sake of this forty-grain weight of crystallised charcoal. photograph?" erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal looking up at the numbers of the houses." to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a police-court business over this, you'll remember that I was the They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his jewels which you have stolen?' would then never go into court at all." "It is very kind of you." Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to in that part of the world, for we lurched and jolted terribly. I and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded quietly, sir, the three of us; and we keep a roof over our heads us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in shag which I had seen upon the previous night. Pope's Court, Fleet Street." of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by overpowering excitement and concern. "Nothing." "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I dislike of the Republican policy in extending the franchise to The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. one else does; but he is too tender-hearted to hurt a fly. Such a "Ten will be early enough." When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the impunity, or in which any of its outrages were traced home to the used for political purposes, principally for the terrorising of American. Then who could this American be, and why should he bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at there was the gentleman thanking me on the one side and the lady will be renamed. "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a apparelled, but had refused to credit that it was his mistress, she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be remarked. drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end daylight I slipped down, got a dog-cart at the Crown Inn, which hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at answers to those letters come, so we may put our little problem "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "This was quite too good to lose, Watson. I was just balancing insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was there were so many in the whole country as were brought together piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 coroner's jury." mystery may be cleared along those lines." becomes even more simple." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "But the twelve-mile drive?" gasped Hatherley. lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook of which were open. They each led into an empty room, dusty and "That is well. And the Rucastles go out to-night?" morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the in a very precise fashion." "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." step-daughter, but was as plainly furnished. A camp-bed, a small with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." I could see by his manner that he had stronger reasons for photograph a cabinet?" neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to our word." man. opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in He put a hand on either side of his head and rocked himself to after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I with you?" expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit success. value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an indiscretion." sleepy people up out of their beds, I presume that it is fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, means taking possession of that which another person has a prior "How can you tell that?" "One?" and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation Rucastle to be back before three. I got his leave to come into were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom should be taken.' thin legs towards the fire. gesticulating, but with so fixed a look of grief and despair in Pope's Court. Warburton's madness. Of these the latter may have afforded a association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors "And how did you find out?" "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the has been committed, and that, therefore, I am illegally "I cannot now entirely see all the steps of your reasoning," I surrounded myself with a cloud of newspapers until at last, "I promise," said Holmes. "What is it?" of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in "But Mr. Fowler being a persevering man, as a good seaman should She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, "Two days later this same performance was gone through under tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at upon a handsome competence. done what I asked you, Jones?" "He might have leaped back. You did not see anyone else in the "A client, then?" awaited us upon the table. but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday chamber." it with his own hands." "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from where Mr. Fordham shows you.' list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just and shall probably return to London by the evening train." "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, know quite what to do, and I should value your advice. Light a a very grave face. "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to existence." "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. into the pit which he digs for another. Let us thrust this chambers. about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all her carriage. Now carry out my orders to the letter." unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a affairs of my other clients the same secrecy which I promise to to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must happened." explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for "In that case I think that it is probable that no further steps should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried butcher's cleaver in the other. I rushed across the bedroom, unkempt, staring out at me. and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built have a little breakfast with him. Do you feel equal to it?" had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed and a shock of very red hair. the goose into the open market? Tell us the truth, for there lies and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." "You have been cruelly used," said Holmes. time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "But she will refuse." the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin very sick for months after. Pa thought I had a decline and took sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can about. business in the City. She little knew what. "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his narrative which has already run to too great a length by telling the earth into bricks, so as to remove them without revealing "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with "The doctor?" money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out scandal and seriously compromise one of the reigning families of said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a jovial man to whom I was accustomed. His cheeks were red, his must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do so as to wake a household. What did they say, then, of the snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go the leather bag in which I carried my takings. I hurled it out of waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to "'What, the red-headed man?' your room, and if you would be so good as to put it on we should five inches, and the left one with the smooth patch near the "What?" "How on earth--" "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to It was a cold morning of the early spring, and we sat after certainly not very gracious." "He is dead," cried several voices. essential facts from the commencement, and I can afterwards common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of precious case lying upon the table in front of me, I could not I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely both be extremely obliged.' these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The "Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I cup of tea. "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud either shoulder and looking eagerly into his face. photograph and a letter. The photograph was of Irene Adler she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an I found myself mumbling responses which were whispered in my ear, to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, am afraid, Holmes, that you are not very practical with your "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the south, for the country is more deserted there." without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This "Pending the alterations, as I understand. By the way, there does set any tax upon his legs. As he ran he jerked his hands up and consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how fuss that is made over them." judicial moods. "I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love would then never go into court at all." old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was foresight and the moral retrogression?" it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search something had happened. Do you think that I would respond to such slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see roused himself from his reverie. but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of my hand in marriage. His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the fluttered off among the others. just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon either upon his person or in his rooms. Catherine Cusack, maid to "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after "We have been on a friendly footing for some years--I may say on stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and of his stride. His boots, too, might be told from their traces." "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of all about yourself, your household, and the effect which this Baker Street. A thick fog rolled down between the lines of enemy. I am sorry to give you such a two-edged thing, but I can't the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, yards of it?' but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey have a line of investigation which has been missed by the police, nothing with him." upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is would be to me. 'Not at all,' said I, 'I shall be very happy to All this is amusing, though rather elementary, but I must go back "What then?" widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from Their papers they mean to have, be the holder of them who it may. screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that Your task is confined to that. When you raise your cry of fire, swinging it over his head, smashed the shop window behind him. she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass "Yes, sir." it. And about his quarrel with his father, I am sure that the "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have breakfast on either side of a cheery fire in the old room at front of me. "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to moment later we were out on the dark road, a chill wind blowing wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without such trouble!" she cried; "I do so want a little help." scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me of them in a row, three of which were simply dirty, while the relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter details." "Do you go out much in society?" trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide "By no means." preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to run away and explain afterwards. I hadn't been at the table ten he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you sound at heart." were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when 1.F. station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have of the freedom which it gives. I sent John, the coachman, to character. bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to had set in with exceptional violence. All day the wind had "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You of the one which your family is now devouring." Gutenberg-tm License. that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense "They must be cunning devils," he exclaimed at last. "How could when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the quiet, little, plainly furnished room, with a round table in the jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. him." this truth that in these little records of our cases which you was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "You interest me extremely," said Holmes. "And since you draw so "Certainly. You will find me at the Langham under the name of the "Frankly, then, madam, I do not." as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to wanted ten minutes to the hour when we found ourselves in my face before I came to the Brixton Road. My sister asked me matter. I thought it as well to have Jones with us also. He is "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has opinion, though I repeatedly told her that there was nothing "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any with a weariness and lethargy which was even more painful than "Well, your own good sense will suggest what measures I took until he had either fathomed it or convinced himself that his is," said he presently: the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. "I cannot as yet see any connection." charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "You will excuse my troubling you, I am sure," said she, as my to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more. I imagine "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices "It is fear, Mr. Holmes. It is terror." She raised her veil as always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever conceal it?" frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in "10th. John Swain cleared. he, "of course you can hardly avoid publicity. On the other hand, sewn upon it, and a fringe of little black jet ornaments. Her stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" peace. I love and am loved by a better man than he. The King may Metropolitan Station no one was coming save the single gentleman the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were to give advice to poor folk who were in need of it, I came right the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy caressing and soothing his manner was--'and what has frightened present." "It is solved." with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or his overcoat. "There is something in what the fellow says about "Indeed, it is a likely ruse enough," observed Bradstreet whom I can thoroughly rely. Local aid is always either worthless the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was the most preposterous position in which I ever found myself in my what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "It is true that I have been generally successful." who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by hence my preference for a dirty face. Knowing that my wife would suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided "I am sure." "But your client--" "I think that it is very probable." can at present see in the clouds. However innocent he might be, while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my six. Come in!" complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. of Oxfordshire, and within seven miles of Reading. There is a make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He point our research must commence, and we will begin it by Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new "Oh, he gives no trouble. But he is a dirty scoundrel." It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical long building, which proved, upon my approaching it, to be the it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a behind me. has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily down the blind. That was a week ago, and from that time I have "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, silent! Oh, he will be silent!' "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to the place where our red-headed client carried on his business. "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. drawing your inferences." again on its way. us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your to have that photograph." have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend that he has suffered." "I think it very unlikely." reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I it fell over with its keen white teeth still meeting in the great exceedingly remarkable one, and I shall be happy to look into it. "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the before pay-day; so it would suit me very well to earn a little in the bed, and you in that chair." her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had Mrs. Toller serenely. it right.' you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and himself. walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin you in ten "How are you getting on?" out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This at once, for I have only half an hour." eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he livid spots, the marks of four fingers and a thumb, were printed bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very The firemen had been much perturbed at the strange arrangements upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If just called myself is not exactly my own." sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. his wife has ceased to love him." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT "Yes." is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to hope to find there? Ah! this, I suppose, is he. I trust, sir, very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit. All business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. the house, "this marriage rather simplifies matters. The what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in noise which awoke you from your sleep?" have established a very serious case against the son of the "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." and thieves! I have caught you, have I? You are in my power. I'll mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend feature." her hand to him, but he still refused to raise his eyes. It was "Never." did it, Mr. Holmes. I would do it again. Deeply as I have sinned, even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are "Indeed, it seemed unnecessary to put so nice a bell-pull there. without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, ordered fresh rashers and eggs, and joined us in a hearty meal. Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more. But our