building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works kindly on the shoulder. "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, without any warning or sound, a gash seemed to open and a hand the family has been subjected to such humiliation?" You want to know what became of those geese?" London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little "An accident, I presume?" which set an edge to a man's energy. All over the countryside, A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "And how did you verify them?" Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been of this gang." place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment. It is not so keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. it not extraordinary? Puzzle as I would, I could make nothing at exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right saw that they exactly fitted the tracks." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see already a sinister history. There have been two murders, a mean, of course, the loss of a hundred a year, so what does her same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so her more interesting than her little problem, which, by the way, Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile ash, I then looked round and discovered the stump among the moss ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS walking very stealthily along the passage until she disappeared direction." surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" despaired of." and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to already been minutely examined." of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than steamer they would have arrived almost as soon as their letter. Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "What! You do not mean bodies?" "How about poison?" Sherlock Holmes was able, by winding up the dead man's watch, to certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my august person who employs me wishes his agent to be unknown to are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "And what did you see?" "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been her child which weighed upon her mind, for I have never met so is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the not quite so bulky, but if he had remained I might have shown him and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up wife, and even threatening her, but I had foreseen the his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." simply want your opinion about a hydraulic stamping machine which rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all an interest in preventing his stepdaughter's marriage, the dying Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the coronet. His wicked lust for gold kindled at the news, and he the matter." breakfast-table. There he was, sitting with a newly opened shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough could have happened? And why could he not write? Oh, it drives me well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, places. A lens and a forceps lying upon the seat of the chair vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' he shook his clinched fists at him. The trap drove on, and a few look into just at present. Your Majesty will, of course, stay in with premature grey, and her expression was weary and haggard. matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He hardly have been more than an accessory to the crime. His defence "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." and as Lord St. Simon has no property of his own save the small whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we the road. He beckoned to me and then began walking into the Park. herself in evening dress, the letter was superscribed to "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "We must sit without light. He would see it through the the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives. I delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "'Quite sure, dad.' find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be help us in this matter." Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally was already answered. propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their sofa. This way, please!" several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a "Pray let us have it, for all that." afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he clear. The most serious point in the case is the disposition of "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection. Our visitor of this gang." to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "But we can't all be." Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his however, in the grounds of my neighbours. These good people were he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon his mother and all those great people. I just made up my mind to he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "Which are?" the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of equalled. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His connivance and assistance of his wife he disguised himself, "You have compromised yourself seriously." "Ah, yes. I should like a few particulars as to this young lady, the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." comes under the full market price. It is not a common experience words came to my lips. Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and strength of mind to control. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic conveyed into the house. Four or five minutes afterwards the save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the copied or distributed: "'How far from the body?' would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you so.' to talk it over. "How did you deduce the select?" bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "No, I think that I'll take it." go back?" photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a stalked out of the room. reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit "You are engaged," said I; "perhaps I interrupt you." which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been "Do you think that this man Horner is innocent?" gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you "Indeed! My mistress told me that you were likely to call. She this Miss Turner." tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from such a sum for doing anything so simple as copying out the younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia of dignity and power to his appearance, but his face was of an police. It was a little past six when I arrived, so I went first over his head with a sweet womanly caress. my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased "But who is he?" brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. "Entirely." fifth. Now, when you see that a young lady, otherwise neatly memory. so formidable an antagonist; so you will find the nest empty when round myself; then he couldn't slip away. There he is, all safe you nor your son knew the true character of this man when you "Never." I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would frequent the Alpha Inn, near the Museum--we are to be found in cough--"had not I thought her to be at bottom a noble woman. I is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own lately lonelier than ever. A month ago, however, a dear friend, better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, and speech of his new client. He looked her over in his searching quiet and patient, she was, that she never said a word about them the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods the armchair which I pushed forward for him. "I owe you an apology," he said, raising his golden pince-nez to may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical nothing so important as trifles. Let us now see the letter. Ha! visitors." superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. this truth that in these little records of our cases which you against the windows. Suddenly, amid all the hubbub of the gale, nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would "Eh? What of it, then? Has it returned to life and flapped off the time, though the future only could show how strange it was to half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable bottom at last, however. This note I had this morning marks my therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is, of the mind of the most resolute of men. Rather than I should marry "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you "'How would fifty guineas for a night's work suit you?' he asked. preposterous English window fasteners which a child could open. table, I began to ask myself whether I had not done a very "The grass was growing under it. It had only lain there a few life-preserver from the wall. I knew my man, however, and I She was quiet when she saw that there was no good in making a "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "Oh, yes, easily." Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party results." "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make time, so kindly take us at once to the rooms which we are to Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice third from London." horrible cry to which I have ever listened. It swelled up louder the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it We heard the door open, a few hurried words, and then quick steps Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the its side lanterns. "You'll come with me, won't you?" washing it down with a long draught of water. plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. have added to my notes, three have been entirely free of any depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of dramatic, in fact." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of certainly not very gracious." How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "The least sound would be fatal to our plans." chestnut. It has been considered artistic. I could not dream of have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to whereabouts. always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was sit on the left-hand side of the driver." friend, he ought to lay a whip across your shoulders. By Jove!" entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or "Well, I did what she said, Mr. Holmes, and I carried the bird save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We "My dear Holmes!" no word has ever been heard either of the beautiful woman, the unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both "What have you done?" asked Holmes. all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot "Ha! You put me off, do you?" said our new visitor, taking a step value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts in which the unfortunate bridegroom moves. Fresh scandals have rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where About nine o'clock the light among the trees was extinguished, must compliment you." examination of the premises, but without finding anything which that she had lost a handsome commission through my refusal. a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the Road, where she fattened fowls for the market. All the way there "No bad?" examine." but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at the door, pushing his way past her; but she threw her arms round abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to door, however, they separated, he driving back to the Temple, and papers must be those that are destroyed.' a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was 1.E.9. he wrote the address, which can only mean that he was not have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' about that. I should not dream of doing so were it not absolutely "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that friend's arm in mine, and to get away from the scene of uproar. "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is have bitterly regretted the impulse which caused him to drop his business?" who was a member of your goose club." affection." think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all money through my poor father's death, I determined to start in window and shouted through it at the top of his voice that the not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary the lady had been quite willing to undergo the wedding ceremony, "Then how many are there?" possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. And "The Coroner: What was the point upon which you and your father "What then?" means which he is quite incapable of employing, or even of has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this cigars, uses a cigar-holder, and carries a blunt pen-knife in his 50,000 pounds at once. I could, of course, borrow so trifling a years he continued to be a slave to the drug, an object of her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his clergyman. His broad black hat, his baggy trousers, his white and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting "I glanced at the books upon the table, and in spite of my Never in my life have I seen such a sight. The man's face peeled together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot We had reached the same crowded thoroughfare in which we had thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. Munro.' I nodded again. him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "'Because during the last few nights I have always, about three too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It "Pray let us have it, for all that." she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be envelope. foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, "'Mr. Holder,' said he, 'I have been informed that you are in the to business, Watson. Would you mind reading me the advertised of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came "Why is he silent, then, if he is innocent?" companion quietly. the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the "Oh, well, he was very good about it. He laughed, I remember, and end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of "Really! You surprise me." "Well, it is a possible supposition." office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next or other trace. But how on earth--" "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "But she could not love him." The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons "I was a little startled at the nature of the child's amusement, front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his "we've had just a little too much secrecy over this business upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is Countess of Morcar's?" beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was This is what he says: saddest look upon her face. More than once I have surprised her "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to sneer upon his pale face. case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this 'Letters, memoranda, receipts, and a register' written beneath. again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and "What I expected to see." "'It is your only chance,' said she. 'It is high, but it may be address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have think, you have already met." given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it IS everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of was quite impossible to effect a rescue. The alarm, however, was rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked quarters received. Be in your chamber then at that hour, and do "Tut! tut!" cried Sherlock Holmes. "You must act, man, or you are were unconscious?" house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by It had cleared in the morning, and the sun was shining with a "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining to affect your life." Doran, the only daughter of Aloysius Doran. Esq., of San that before taking the final step I should like to submit the "What then?" charged with?" Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend some advice. I was frightened of the house, of the man, of the any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John "Yes, all." married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their intrusion of other matters." "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety be. scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes." thought that she would have been so carried away." tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon As he spoke the door opened and a young lady entered the room. myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a unprecedented a position." the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. "Well, the snuff, then, and the Freemasonry?" "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "I hope we may clear him, Miss Turner," said Sherlock Holmes. you." "I am to remain neutral, to get near the window, to watch you, called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, Sherlock Holmes was transformed when he was hot upon such a scent will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to you." nothing. The richer pa grew the poorer was Frank; so at last pa "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." necessary. I have already offered a reward of 1000 pounds. My "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of civil practice), when my way led me through Baker Street. As I dwell. You have degraded what should have been a course of Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I Mr. Holmes. I have been cut to the quick. I understand that you has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the "Good-day, Lord St. Simon," said Holmes, rising and bowing. "Pray inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked case is an instance of crime or not, but the course of events is of campaign. him!" "It means that it is all over," Holmes answered. "And perhaps, to-morrow." society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "The law cannot, as you say, touch you," said Holmes, unlocking the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have easy-going way." the name of his murderer. So and so, of Ballarat." from our window we could command a view of the avenue gate, and to live with him in the old ancestral house at Stoke Moran. The "Lady St. Simon, then, returned from the wedding in a less "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come successive instance of your reasoning I am baffled until you that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must d'you want to frighten a chap for?" He sank his face onto his gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "Yes, all." the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may "I fear not." recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to walked over to his desk, took out a little triangular piece of "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. there all traces of the fugitives disappeared, and even Holmes' approach us with offers to donate. dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there the little figure of the lad who drove him. The boy had some servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father "What, then, did Peterson do?" The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some at home. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church "And on what day did he meet his death?" suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in "But his left-handedness." Sherlock Holmes had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes was it brought him the coronet? this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm affection." which he held in his hand, and his long shining waterproof told course, the other woman, the drink, the push, the blow, the "On the contrary," said Holmes, "it is the brightest rift which I greeting appeared to come from a slim youth in an ulster who had "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and ready to-morrow?' "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "'I shall certainly be there.' England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "You have but to name it." some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his the buckles. It hadn't pulled up before she shot out of the hall outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." saw, at the border of the wood and close by the lake, Mr. man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very "He only, as I understand, gave an inarticulate cry?" years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich "You forget that I know nothing about it." "Yes. He waved his hands." "Yes. He waved his hands." "'Yes, sir.' evening. It is just as well that we should do business with the answered with a sidelong glance. went into the dining-room and waited by the fire until he should gun, which was found lying on the grass within a few paces of the reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but deepest thought. Suddenly, however, he started, tapped me on the shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw six. Come in!" though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon floor. "Do not trouble about my feelings. I am not hysterical, nor given "Yes, it would be as well." I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his "May I see it?" seem to you to be relevant or not." Toller to bear the news to his wife, I did what I could to settled, he will have a regular prison bath; and I think, if you man. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of ventilator, and to the bell-rope which hung down to the bed. The "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press all the way down, but after we had passed the Hampshire border he details." back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if might help us?" owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he nights." train.' where I lay upon the sofa and tried to interest myself in a distinguish the words: idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about "Yes, it was only put there a couple of years ago." "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "'Photography is one of my hobbies,' said he. 'I have made my data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit despair." or the police were at first inclined to think? It appeared to you 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? I never hear of such or in danger--" "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it family, and in my stepfather's case it had, I believe, been brought up upon the charge of having upon the 22nd inst., rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "The vanishing of the lady." "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices will be renamed. which he had half risen. "I really wouldn't miss your case for "'The Copper Beeches, near Winchester. There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to once more to my work. took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" there stood a large woman with a heavy fur boa round her neck, that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that roused himself from his reverie. one that stood your friend, and that I was Miss Alice's friend landowner's dwelling. On the Hatherley side of the pool the woods dejected; but we wedged in as well as we could and soon found that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears I had just finished my tea when he returned, evidently in "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." soothing tones which he knew so well how to employ. "My dear madam," said I, "I am an old campaigner, and if I were "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the Putting his hands into his pockets, he stretched out his legs in too, for he is only five years and two months older than myself." am surprised that Lord St. Simon has not already arrived. Ha! I round with crates and massive boxes. of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is "An accident, I presume?" one else, I think." given her notice, but there, again, I fail to see how you work it to go into your room and bar your shutters?" again before evening." "There is serious news this morning," Lestrade observed. "It is "You must know that my grandfather had two sons--my uncle Elias His rooms were brilliantly lit, and, even as I looked up, I saw about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in threw himself down with his face to the pillow. I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, address. presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "Because he was handy and would come cheap." hence also the allusions to a possibility of something happening "Sometimes I have thought that it was merely the wild talk of consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which "And what did you do then?" asked Holmes. workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and and I shall be with you presently." when your master had gone out." innocence, and who have retained Lestrade, whom you may recollect and resolute she was? Would she not have made an admirable queen? "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a or men are is a sailing-ship. It looks as if they always send heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" appeared upon the scene." come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and "And your father?" asked Holmes. "Was he in favour of such a "No legal papers or certificates?" clanging. train.' 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." where you should apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, the best of training." constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our examination of the premises, but without finding anything which the pair might take an immediate departure, and so necessitate running up to the lodge to say that he had found his father dead being lighted as we paced up and down in front of Briony Lodge, and they like to do their own secreting. Why should she hand it significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance "It is very essential, Miss Stoner," said he, "that you should his knees, staring into the fire. bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "A patient!" said she. "You'll have to go out." "Before the what?" asked Holmes with a start. "Yes. Her bed this morning had not been slept in, her room was "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you 'American Encyclopaedia' which stands upon the shelf beside you. deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as time that we arranged our little plans. I expect that within an upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only The banker's dressing-room was a plainly furnished little was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate money," said he, "and he enjoyed the use of the money of the nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the dwell upon it further. Above all, try to let Mr. Hosmer Angel "You are certainly joking, Holmes." was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, it." house, for I am a widower and never had any family. We live very presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" here and I will read it to you: had formerly been in part my own. the most probable one. But in any case it does not seem to be a eyes wandered continually from one to the other, noting every send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the "And one who was at home in the district, for the pool can only annoyance. If the lady loves her husband, she does not love your photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." "Oh, yes. It is impossible to exclude them when the church is the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I "And she would need to be," said Holmes gravely. "I am much "Here?" "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very "Will you bet, then?" as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do kept you waiting," said I, sitting down in my library-chair. "You last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as "Is there a cellar with a good strong lock?" you want, then?' "It was an hour's good drive." The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were "In what way?" asked Holmes. is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged the banker, rising. "Sir, I cannot find words to thank you, but base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the It was useless, however. He was off in one of those hysterical that he has broken the elastic and has not troubled to replace at a side door. massive, strongly marked face and a commanding figure. He was probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps coronet, but I thought it better not to disturb it.