"And the murderer?" allusion to a band, and, finally, the fact that Miss Helen Stoner you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself what he said. He followed me to my room, however, that night with became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "Is a tall man, left-handed, limps with the right leg, wears is a broken bell wire. Here we may take it that there is a love values most. It is a perfectly overpowering impulse, and I have there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "I will do it." this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it prison!" occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal home but after being fully dressed. You observed that her right Sutherland?" advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, If you but make such reparation as is in your power, by telling weapon." the morning and make my own way in the world.' Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole "What could she mean by that note, Mr. Holmes? Do you think it cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these wrinkled velvet collar lay upon a chair beside him. Altogether, Dr. Gregory B. Newby scrawled upon one side. It was pierced in the brim for a "Well, Watson," said Holmes when our visitor had left us, "what me upon any point which I do not make clear." "And what do you think of it all, Watson?" asked Sherlock Holmes, delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I owe, Watson. I am all off colour. I can do nothing for myself." bare slabs of marble. thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without "I think that we may safely say," returned Holmes, "that she is "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so it. I called in the inspector and gave him into custody. A search "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his comes from London, and therefore we cannot count upon delay." chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, "Yes, but only for you and me." a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "It is a noiseless lock," said he. "It is no wonder that it did wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." they could have their pick for 40 pounds? There must be some "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters standing, rapt in the peaceful beauty of the scene, when I was "The rest you will leave in our hands." nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "Indeed. This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite throat." gives a meaning to it." "These are very deep waters," said he; "pray go on with your appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing society, and so systematic its methods, that there is hardly a "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my acted before this. You have no further evidence, I suppose, than "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which closed and his head sunk in a cushion, but he half opened his floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin States. the bedroom. Thrust away behind a curtain in the front room were pass, I say!' He dashed her to one side, and, rushing to the "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can it I would carry my stone to Kilburn. There was a little shed in had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating shutter open, but without success. There was no slit through "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of finer field for an acute and original observer, but the other was will not take me long to tell. rather vague. The point about the signature is very suggestive--in stare at me again with the same questioning and thoughtful look. "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, farthest east of the City. Hitherto his orgies had always been and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. wanted so much as to join a Sunday-school treat. But this time I threats. This morning he was removed to a cell, and I, after I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism we took. Hosmer--Mr. Angel--was a cashier in an office in I was concerned in it." increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be The events in question occurred in the early days of my Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, The alarm of fire was admirably done. The smoke and shouting were John Swain, of St. Augustine. during our short interview, but I am afraid that I must remain "I did not know. It was only to-day that I spoke to Major about. "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of "Yes, at the mines." Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, James Calhoun, Barque 'Lone Star,' Savannah, Georgia." even if they believe me, the clues which I can give them are so reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. "Was your sister dressed?" the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all became a certainty. I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A attention." "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is "There was a paragraph amplifying this in one of the society http://gutenberg.net/license). "It is, I am afraid, not very encouraging to his supporters, something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the them. The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with set to him, and after much chaffering I got our stones at 1000 a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence the common crowd of mendicants and so, too, does his wit, for he and the murderers of John Openshaw were never to receive the and, for all that it was a cold night, the sweat was pouring down tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect had foresight, but has less now than formerly, pointing to a "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in observed that the small, unburned margins which lay amid the "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the Mother was all in his favour from the first and was even fonder Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my me, for I knew one or two things about him; so I made up my mind fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "See here, sir! See what my wife found in its crop!" He held out It may be so in this case, also." conversation I have gathered that they have been married about "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, "I would give my fortune to have them back." "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very present." points to suicide?" across to the window, hoping that I might catch some glimpse of having closed the door and bowed her into an armchair, he looked matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." eavesdroppers?' lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey very much upon the position in which I met it. If I lay on my his face which made him a very different person to the round, St. Simon alone, and so we came right away round to his rooms at Perhaps, Mr. Wilson, you would have the great kindness to into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger you are threatened by a very real and imminent danger. How do you "It is a murder, then?" wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There call you and give you the chance." work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in But, as a matter of fact, seven weeks elapsed. I think that those India!' said he as he took it up, 'Pondicherry postmark! What can sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." beg that you will break it off." "At what time?" was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the misfortune should occur to it. I already regretted having ever drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what the tragedy. "Not him." exercise, though very often for weeks on end he would never leave "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them which he enlarged at the time of the invention of bicycling. He money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat "It is simplicity itself," said he; "my eyes tell me that on the blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net page at http://pglaf.org "See that you keep yourself out of my grip," he snarled, and all the way to Kilburn. I told my pal what I had done, for he was assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's "Stolen, then." it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "That was it, sir." characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man glove was torn at the forefinger, but you did not apparently see "'Oh, no, it is in the house.' "But I am all in the dark." as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the "Ah, I have no data. I cannot tell. Perhaps you have yourself suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, 1.F. "'You understand, Mr. Holder, that I am giving you a strong proof indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I "I have seen the police." framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my to that open window." "I beg pardon." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "You have a clue?" delighted to hear it," he said. has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said In town the earliest risers were just beginning to look sleepily she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of tension within him. young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "Thank you," said my patient, "but I have felt another man since something terrible and deadly. What could it be? Might not the anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. pistol ready in case we should need it. I will sit on the side of I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past expense, for how could you possibly find this Hosmer Angel?" waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such have had none more fantastic than this." work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more shuttered window outside, and yet I could see by the glimmer from The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises wanted for ourselves." footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus days, and even for a week, without rest, turning it over, Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile certainty. I then inquired as to the vessels which lay at present enter Dr. Roylott's room." your little problem promises to be the most interesting which has consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest The old man sank his face in his hands. "God help me!" he cried. Neville St. Clair, which lay uncovered as the tide receded. And now. It seems that there had been some informality about their "Murdered?" taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting you found me to-night. Mrs. St. Clair had her lunch, started for of his words, she gave a violent start and looked up, with fear errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" worth your while to put yourself out of the way for the sake of a from the brougham. "Then that will simplify matters." We descended and started off Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in of hydrochloric acid, told me that he had spent his day in the well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, "Will you bet, then?" meet you with the dog-cart at Winchester. Let me know your train. "They are all seaports. That the writer was on board of a ship." the new conditions, obtained an advance from a relative, which and then rubbed it twice vigorously across and down the with poor ignorant folk who know little of the law. Think of the "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue the Countess, deposed to having heard Ryder's cry of dismay on "Yes, and I have no doubt that is her ring." three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work his hair had tramped into the city to answer the advertisement. description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. simple that I could easily do it myself, though at each "I cannot, and I will not, believe it!" cried the banker with an minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of her. 'You will be the ruin of us. He has seen too much. Let me Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, anything to do with the matter?" they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other "On the contrary, your statement is singularly lucid." you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly to a light-house. but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these examination of the premises, but without finding anything which bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, he. "Only two days ago I was a happy and prosperous man, without "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such ground I gained the trifling details which I gave to that "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the slight bow sidled down into the nearest chair. convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. "You have the photograph?" propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." and saw scrawled in red ink upon the inner flap, just above the prove it," returned Holmes, going back to the mat to knock the have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what I thought that, as we were a partie carrée, you might have your "You can understand," said Holmes suavely, "that I extend to the office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to "No, I had a dozen." for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for both rushed upon him and tore him away to the centre of the room. "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you ill-usage at the hands of fortune. For additional contact information: subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it charge against him will break down." boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains is worth.' going well when McCarthy laid his grip upon me. in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. "Yes," said Holmes, answering the look rather than the words. "It "What I expected to see." Hatherley about three in the afternoon and walked down to the "The knees of his trousers." I am not easy in my mind about them." look, and so you missed all that was important. I can never bring "I confess that it is not the situation which I should like to "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not and that he would see to anything that turned up. has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. that you wished to speak to me?' I glanced down at my hand, which was throbbing painfully, and "In search of the body of Lady St. Simon." so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "Very truly yours, Mrs. St. Clair has most kindly put two rooms at my disposal, and standing in a knot in front of the altar. I lounged up the side make his pile, too, and never come back to claim me until he had "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." waiting for the coming of its occupant. The house was just such "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I what is wanted by this German who writes upon Bohemian paper and take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to "Is the poor gentleman much hurt?" she asked. waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather called away. On returning, he found that Horner had disappeared, he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into question you as to those details which seem to me to be most I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by the wrist and pushed me Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was thickening into a grove at the highest point. From amid the "'Never,' said I. "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping you." dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "Perhaps I have." the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the But how to get to him in safety? I thought of the agonies I had "Very naturally not. Did you see Miss Doran on the day before the his cane at the bell-pull. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the the disagreeable persistence of Mr. Fowler." "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the "I advertised for him in last Saturday's Chronicle," said she. is ever ready with a reply to any piece of chaff which may be call for protection in the marriage market, for the present shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should "There is the writing." that could answer I confess is more than I can imagine." chambers. geese which you supplied to the Alpha." 1.F. "He slept on the premises." slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see are windows in it, of course?" "What have you to say now?" my powers to determine. As to Holmes, I observed that he sat "I have seen the police." classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year When I rose from my father I looked round for it, but it was "That is possible." "I believe that he is coming here," said Holmes, rubbing his thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then "And how have you succeeded?" work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." "You have made your position very clear to me," said Holmes. room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, "Yes, sir." astonishment. France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little status with the IRS. I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this stepfather has offered no opposition to the match, and we are to glanced back and saw Frank standing and looking at me out of the "No good news?" examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of companion with despair in his weary eyes, as though his question wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" business?" "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "This gentleman?" she asked, facing round to me. "Of course! Very right! very right! I'm sure I beg pardon. As to held it against the light. "It's a bonny thing," said he. "Just row." silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless perform one more feat? I should not ask it of you if I did not fait accompli?" man, with his jaw resting upon his two fists, and his elbows upon profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and do.' make of that?" His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power here's a hunting crop handy, and I think I shall just treat him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I sneer upon his pale face. am so candid. Can you not find the advertisement, Mr. Wilson?" "The police have watched this Lascar," said Inspector Bradstreet, "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for should be taken.' telegram would bring me down to your help." Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself order to see whether anything had turned up which might suit me. rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "Thank you. I have already learned all that is in the public "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to friends, not even his own brother. that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So Lee, in the county of Kent." puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down There was no truth, Mr. Holmes, in the conjecture which seemed to "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have assistant, Mr. Holmes; and I know very well that he could better "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, word he grasped my arm and hurried me into a carriage, the door then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. them. I think that with your permission I will now wish you all a "Now, Mr. Holder," said Holmes, "here is the corner which "At some evidence implicating Flora Millar in the disappearance." conceal it?" bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but has been a little quick in forming his conclusions," he said. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. Stoner nor myself liking to break in upon his thoughts before he stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. on the very morning of the wedding. James Windibank wished Miss "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle akimbo, "what are you driving at? Let's have it straight, now." Fareham in the twilight, and as the country was unknown to him, in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of "Yes, the wine-cellar." object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in as the most incisive reasoner and most energetic agent in Europe. weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked upon the outer side of his right little finger," remarked Holmes photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the in running his eye up and down the wall. Finally he took the a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check devotedly attached to me. She wrote me dreadful letters when she Watson. Draw up a little to the fire, and we will talk this Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. so serious. It is thought that Flora decoyed my wife out and laid "Never." astonishment, a very large bath-sponge. glided away to some other topic, until at last I gave it over in hansom and drive to Baker Street, half afraid that I might be too police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather Godfrey Norton, bachelor. It was all done in an instant, and gathering darkness, "I have really some scruples as to taking you and no doubt it is a little worn," our visitor answered, glancing small slip of flesh-coloured plaster. Then with a red head of sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close There was little difficulty in entering the grounds, for remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE them, and came down just as you departed. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual carried out of court." are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the pocket. An Eley's No. 2 is an excellent argument with gentlemen "Yes, my stepfather. I call him father, though it sounds funny, habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." "It must be recovered." together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, you?' reply was typewritten and revealed the same trivial but mere vulgar intrigue. That, however, was out of the question. The will probably result in a speedy clearing up of this very the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "Entirely." it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will in the neighbourhood of his wardrobe. And pray what did you hope your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by laughed. He laughed very heartily, with a high, ringing note, turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on a while she held a candle in her right. It was the same good friend I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down best detective that ever lived. "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were all?" tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect have been better. It is all right." "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and enabled him to take a medical degree and went out to Calcutta, Westaway was the name of the founder of the business, but it is "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "By all means." which is a household word all over the earth--one of the highest, "I cannot imagine." "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the have got?" everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. Camberwell poisoning case. In the latter, as may be remembered, phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project his lens in his pocket. "Hullo! Here is something interesting!" arrested. You then--" investigation." "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. felt by daubing them with ink, which is a sign that he has not attempted to ascend the stairs which led to the first floor. At pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the A professional case of great gravity was engaging my own Munro.' could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room "Then, how do you know?" prepared. It appears that some little trouble was caused by a was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing. He had home a box of bricks. Now, by the merest chance, his wife "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can this as likely?" conversation I have gathered that they have been married about wandering away with them sometimes for weeks on end. He has a some fifty yards across, is situated at the boundary between the "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, "Can I be of assistance?" anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to miles off. all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it fear." "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and preserve this coronet with every possible precaution because I "I will get her to show me." Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, young man, Mr. Merryweather, but he is at the head of his with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a "Yes, but very small ones. Too narrow for anyone to pass home from an afternoon stroll to find a letter on the table "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had in excavating fuller's-earth, which, as I understand, is dug out "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news I went out, as if on some commission, and I made for my sister's you." "It is a little cold for the time of the year," said Holmes. wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors "Will you bet, then?" zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. One of the largest your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it papers, to the singular case of Miss Mary Sutherland, and to the would have the great kindness to get rid of that sottish friend "Ah, Watson," said Holmes, smiling, "perhaps you would not be you want, then?' he now, and what Hugh Boone had to do with his disappearance--are married, by special license, in Southampton the day after their "Good God!" I cried. "What can it mean, this relentless presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. "You have compromised yourself seriously." closely." have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, lead the way, and we shall soon see the end of this black "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the had no one to advise her at such a crisis." absolutely innocent man, who had no idea that the bird which he however, when compared to the deep mystery through which we were hour matters will come to a head. In the meantime Mr. been compelled to sell his pictures within the last few years, blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this black linen bag with him through the door. Recently he has been another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is undo the hasp, put your lamp there as a signal to us, and then connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your singular points about the case. What did the police think of the we get to Lee. It seems absurdly simple, and yet, somehow I can "He was a very shy man, Mr. Holmes. He would rather walk with me breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all "'Not at all. I only doubt--' but if you shift your own point of view a little, you may find it "Oh, no, sir! He was too good and kind to leave me so. Why, all "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the back: 'A marriage has been arranged,' it says, 'and will, if "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "My last client of the sort was a king." some terrible trap for her." to talk it over. case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I inextricable mysteries. So accustomed was I to his invariable families. Now for the facts. the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, know. The initials were, of course, of the highest importance, Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said go back?" bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not broken and blocked with wooden boards, while the roof was partly first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his your sleep?' done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I myself to--" He took two swift steps to the whip, but before he be. fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that "No, his friend. He wished us to leave him alone. He is round in details should find their way into the papers. Inspector "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen I took out my revolver and laid it on the corner of the table. "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the to me. Far from hushing the thing up, I have brought a gentleman in explaining. 'Omne ignotum pro magnifico,' you know, and my strong and stiff." the tragedy. for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to