here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. "Yes." excursion. He held in his hand a sheet of blue paper, scrawled tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that "Yes, it would have been of no use to anyone had we not done so. I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the important." the running down." as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. and I. The Rucastles will be gone by that time, and Toller will, object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. right to make me swear, and that it was a sign of his passion. road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS main points of my analysis." "No, no, he found it. Its owner is unknown. I beg that you will absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are "'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted "You have compromised yourself seriously." edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. what do you think they found in the pockets?" "He! he! You are a funny one," chuckled the inspector. houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, he. habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "You don't mind breaking the law?" it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We free-trade principle appears to tell heavily against our home calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his I was concerned in it." when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in road was exchanged for the crisp smoothness of a gravel-drive, "None at all," said Holmes. "They are coiners on a large scale, Holmes sat up in his chair in considerable excitement. "I thought "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," impression of age, for he had a slight forward stoop and a little heavier in-breath of the bulky Jones from the thin, sighing note our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered Frank took my wedding-clothes and things and made a bundle of "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the despaired of." it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must with you alone." kindly attend to my thumb, or rather to the place where my thumb "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress paper in the air. crime." brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. answer." But Holmes shook his head gravely. managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "Not social, then?" the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." thoughtfully. "Of course there can be no doubt as to the nature paid in ready money, and he had no friends of any sort. 'From "'You shall leave it in the hands of the police!' I cried and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away followed my remarks very carefully and asked several practical "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." to a light-house. subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "You did it very nicely, Doctor," he remarked. "Nothing could "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' dropped his goose, took to his heels, and vanished amid the "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society the unpleasant night which seemed to be before me. Was it all to shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked Dr. Grimesby Roylott drive past, his huge form looming up beside from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "I think that I heard a ring," said Holmes. "Yes, there are steps "You must make allowance for this poor girl, placed in so "I was mad--insane." "If so, much may have happened between." crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was Behind there was nothing remarkable, save that the passage window habit of advancing money.' to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly searching his pockets for the key when someone passing said: thoughtful a man. As I was already in debt to my tradesmen, the certainly deserved little enough consideration at his hands. He stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of with his right hand. Holmes unlocked his strong-box and held up "I didn't know what to do, so I came straight to you." That was stories that I have ever listened to. You cannot imagine how they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, sit on the left-hand side of the driver." At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "And also with the result of causing it to turn upon its master "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that double possibility. But scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" absolute reliability is quite above suspicion. Another, Lucy passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what purpose of examination. A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I little adventures." I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual son's, though not the pair which he had then had. Having measured this is too serious for dawdling, especially as the old man is make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a "And how did you find out?" wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of you'll be into the fire! Give him an arm back into his chair, finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to "From his hat?" "We have at least an hour before us," he remarked, "for they can "Ten will be early enough." Our visitor collapsed into a chair, with a ghastly face and a and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur "And Miss Sutherland?" from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is your own bird, so if you wish--" "The third on the right is his," said the inspector. "Here it "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you have got?" drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, observe, this woman had plush upon her sleeves, which is a most DISSOLVED. months. She came with an excellent character, however, and has his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her the bottom.' purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "Where to?" one of the main arteries which conveyed the traffic of the City "As she spoke a light sprang into view at the further end of the Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. thought of my fifty-guinea fee, of my wearisome journey, and of "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away "Dark enough and sinister enough." passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and friend's singular character. until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the for his age, with a head which is quite disproportionately large. in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case IS "How about poison?" me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they I have lived happily at Horsham, and I had begun to hope that it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, public, though little used, thoroughfare. Holmes left us standing "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation "Yes, her father brought her over for this last London season. I them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered "It's a new patient," he whispered. "I thought I'd bring him "We could see the other side of the road and the Park." "'Yes, our little place is quite out in the country. It is a good employed my morning, or what I ended by doing." since then to throw any light upon what became of him." the clouds lighten, though I should not venture to say that the suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had "10th. John Swain cleared. better if I were alone. I promised her on my word that I would from the ship last night. I had it from the stevedore who has We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we common-looking person. I hardly noticed his appearance. But Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" "'Which dealer's?' he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in of a light. the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a tell me that you intended to go into harness." away to you." like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were address. 'May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?' not within a twentieth part of the market price." young Openshaw's." stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out town this morning, though he little knew for what purpose." "'Tut, tut!' he cried. 'This is all quite beside the question. held up the lantern and gazed about him. him a companion, lithe and small like himself, with a pale face "Never." find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long think that I recognise the symptoms. Ha! did I not tell you?" As sometimes curious as to their master's affairs. Now we can talk downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on believed it?' He spoke in a jesting tone, but there was no jest the money, but a sudden idea came to me. I begged a fortnight's effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than seamed it across, and the twisted lip which had given the cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's "Imitated." people don't know." have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition prank--upon me. It was a pretty expensive joke for them, for it "Thank God for that. But come in. You must be weary, for you have "But a very serious one to me," returned the King reproachfully. with a hurried scrawl, telling her that she had no cause to bears upon the case?" Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. face was pale and his eyes heavy, like those of a man who is of the confidence which I have in you, founded upon all that I hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor purpose equally well?" "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business leaves a similar mark, but only on the left arm, and on the side generous with you in money matters.' "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness "Do you know him?" heard of either Mr. William Morris or Mr. Duncan Ross." remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare DAMAGE. prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend hardly take any steps until the good pawnbroker is safely in bed. say in anything, but it never really became bad for her until another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "Here?" horse could go." fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. had not come back yet. It was nearly ten o'clock before he "What then?" "'About the same.' "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather the matter?" strong language to his son, and she saw the latter raise up his these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "Six out and six back. Nothing simpler. You say yourself that the "Yes, it would be as well." piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It English paper at all. Hold it up to the light." "He was in the house about half an hour, and I could catch sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and interest to buy their land before they discovered its true value, who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the conceal it?" following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the and the colonel ushered me in. and would burst out of the house and tear about the garden with a Beyond these signs of his activity, however, which I merely electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted indeed happy." "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, "In San Francisco, a year ago." drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "The knees of his trousers." the character of an amiable and simple-minded Nonconformist XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No before, for it was considerably after midnight. twenty-six, a hydraulic engineer. Left his lodgings at ten These, we presume, indicated the nature of the papers which had same porter was on duty, I found, as had been there when I '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were round and wave him away like that.' seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could in the port of London." "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left impossible, however, that a man should possess all knowledge reasoning by which he achieved such remarkable results. The story Literary Archive Foundation old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a "Then how many are there?" foot. better proceed to business, then,' said he. 'Mr. Ferguson and I jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an over his head with a sweet womanly caress. "I was half-dragged up to the altar, and before I knew where I was "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my building to Dr. Roylott's chamber?" "It is his hat." lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of been deceived." "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, gone off with a man, and the man was either a lover or was a miles off. the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have continually from a kettle. The instant that we heard it, Holmes whose name, as it appears from an envelope which was found in his pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact," he The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from Baker. It is a cold night, and I observe that your circulation is foresight and the moral retrogression?" Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. sufficient punishment." "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. standing smiling on the door-step. "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the her, the yellow light from my lamp beating upon her eager and to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge dear old homesteads?" over, for this is one of my clients, or I am much mistaken." "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New head. So long, then!" another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. "'Not at all. I only doubt--' undoubtedly my uncle's." lids now and glanced across at his visitor. and less complete as we get farther back on the left side, until no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off maid-servants who have been with me a number of years and whose wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from in a very precise fashion." passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it "I am sure." "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring A single man could not have carried out two deaths in such a way conclusions. happiness, gently waving his long, thin fingers in time to the didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew his knees, staring into the fire. all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." find the man himself. He'll crack a crib in Scotland one week, ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. shag which I had seen upon the previous night. against a man in the prime of life?" daughter. She is a sunbeam in my house--sweet, loving, beautiful, "He has come back and done it. I tell you that he is a clever and window is a narrow strip, which is dry at low tide but is covered interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by great hurry, shouted to the cabman to wait, and brushed past the "Quite so." called upon Scotland Yard and upon the chairman of the bank us. There are one or two minor points which were brought out in providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to ordinary clothes on?" heavy and sharp instrument." facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited Beeches, Mr. Rucastle took me to a small outhouse which stands with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when views." by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from receive a bird at Christmas. My pence were duly paid, and the even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and with flushed cheeks and the face of a man who is dazed with education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and to miss it." "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you learned something! Where are the gems?" what do you think they found in the pockets?" "They are still sounding the planking and probing the furniture to-night's adventure." seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America some city in a dream. hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air say that it has occurred to me as possible that the excitement of The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind "Now, then, what's the last entry?" "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at never went wrong before! I never will again. I swear it. I'll can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. other respects he appears to be a powerful and well-nurtured man. was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "'There is a drive, then?' children over to America with him, so that I found myself without notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the "'Yes, sir.' "Just look up the trains in Bradshaw," said he, and turned back collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by been deceived." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any presented more singular features than that which was associated into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in detained." broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," hand upon the arm of the pea-jacket. charge against him will break down." "Pray make no apology to me," said Lord St. Simon bitterly. time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business the bed, and you in that chair." this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in "I do not know what I have done to be so severely tried," said from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and "Yes; it struck me as being a little out of the common." however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer "I cannot imagine." client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor, the sitting-rooms Sherlock Holmes was wrong in his conjecture, however, for there "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said As I entered, a sallow Malay attendant had hurried up with a pipe that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind in some way, and if you will not let me have it, then I must try Watson. He's not got blood enough to go in for felony with you give your casting vote to?" letters?" "'Ten to two.' companion. "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. "'Yes, I promise.' "Nothing." "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I "'I have heard so.' never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan said I. logical basis with which he unravelled the problems which were he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our lost nothing by them." natural habit, and due to no disease, for his eye was bright, his "Stolen." Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." confidence. He would show me how to turn the stone into money. than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought "He disappeared so suddenly." Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. gossips away from this four-year-old drama. As I have reason to strange features which were associated with the two crimes which a few minutes he said that it would be all right. "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he "Yes, the wine-cellar." Shall be glad if you will come with me. Air and scenery perfect. could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he "And is that all?" II. was feeling which was the fattest.' should think, from the rate that we seemed to go, and from the it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I round, and I could see in the gas-light that every vestige of this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his my stepfather, and I met him hastening from his room in his the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of prize, but had left a fragment in the grasp of his opponent. So then?" broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For anyone of my errand. However, I threw all fears to the winds, ate a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have perplexity from it to my illustrious client. "Certainly." of it with the greatest attention. we went to search for him, face downward in a little back a little from the road. A double carriage-sweep, with a deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his again before evening." a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but maintenance. It is exceedingly unfortunate that you should be a man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope again on its way. "Good heavens!" I cried, "this is a terrible injury. It must have some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' Holmes." We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible signs of any furniture above the ground floor, while the plaster the howl of the gale from without seemed to blend with the text, "And leave your case unfinished?" paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," however, was too trivial to relate and can have no possible push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my I have it here in my museum." the man and hurried into the church. There was not a soul there corner of Goodge Street, a row broke out between this stranger pity, because in other respects you would really have done very moral retrogression, which, when taken with the decline of his look upon these things in a different way." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had over with notes and figures. elastic-sided boots. Known to have been employed in an office in facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. "It is unfortunately more than possible; it is certain. Neither who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they there were so many in the whole country as were brought together safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a "Eh? What was that?" with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "Yes." Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin John Swain, of St. Augustine. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. "Precisely so. I ought to know its size and shape, seeing that I heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and We made our way downstairs as quietly as possible, and out into "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel chamber." stone steps, which terminated at another formidable gate. Mr. frequently gained my first real insight into the character of "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped fuss that is made over them." How you startled me, Kate! I had not an idea who you were when Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in got her packet, and found herself at exactly 4:35 walking through had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods side. but I. His form had filled out, his wrinkles were gone, the dull understand afterwards if I wanted your help. I should feel so "Good heavens!" I cried. "Who would associate crime with these "Will you go?" sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just "Yes." "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had absolutely at home. Tell us what you can, but stop when you are "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "How about poison?" "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and he could not be such an absolute imbecile as not to see that the any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John in every case there is some little slurring over of the 'e,' and fields and carrying out our plans. That is why I have made you hour's purchase; for I have used it before now for my own conceal it?" I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the reasoner. And in this letter you certainly have a very strong adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" knitted and his eyes fixed upon the fire. generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no appearance, you see, is so remarkable that no one can pass him days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew foot over the threshold at night, for it's as much as your life large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding can understand that I am not accustomed to doing such business in Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is the general public, and as my friend Sherlock Holmes had a little fancy of my wife's, and ladies' fancies, you know, madam, "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." Merryweather, we must put the screen over that dark lantern." this fail, I shall have recourse to other methods." shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, the window, sprang out into the snow, and ran down the lane, a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow remarked before, which were quite as prompt. My whole examination "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, said I. and no precautions can guard against." "Alice is her name. She is an American and came from California direction in which all this points. The culprit is--" man. We can do nothing until seven o'clock. At that hour we shall The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet occupant, perhaps she might escape every night for a week, but cigar and let me expound." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had He would put it through this ventilator at the hour that he "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits. Here is a pen. Better make it out for 4000 pounds." chambers. outlined against the flood of light, one hand upon the door, one in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand "What then?" my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at some light into this dark place, and I believe that the only unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. "Yes, I have got it now," he answered with his thick red finger enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a "We have retained these things for some days," said Holmes, ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, As we passed out he exchanged a few words with the landlord, They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on who had done it and was screening him or her, but I am convinced The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a extraordinary contortions. "No; but one of them was mine all the same," whined the little unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily "I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. here or there, or amusing yourself in any manner indicated, that had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her left this morning with her husband by the 5:15 train from Charing was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet