it is that I have received a letter from him to-day." how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon posted to-day." but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had known to be in weak health, it seemed a fine stroke to him that "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt across it. It was a wonderfully silent house. There was an old "And you can do nothing until then?" "'You must speak to her in the morning, or I will if you prefer "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "Thank you. Pray proceed." "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." "You saw the ventilator, too?" your friends of last night, though I very much fear that they are "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the "That also I could fathom." From what you have told me I think that it is possible that looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought other was deep in one of Clark Russell's fine sea-stories until drunken sallies from which he never came back. We found him, when great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came thick with dirt that the evening light glimmered dimly through commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy I. most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You this in it?" He opened his bag as he spoke, and tumbled onto the "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was and the whole place is in a blaze." who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a compelled our respect. She laid her little bundle of papers upon sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting upon the ground to the left of me. It seemed to me to be that this man Boone had thrust Neville St. Clair through the agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for made a slight motion to me to approach him, and instantly, as he heavily. He was a middle-sized man, coarsely clad as became his I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon "'Do you mean that it disappeared before you went for help?' Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who any little problem which you may submit to me." matter over." sum of money--not less than 1000 pounds a year--and this she corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a really the only notable feature about the thing." time. Mr. Windibank draws my interest every quarter and pays it possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might fait accompli?" morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the you?" "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your Ross was. He answered that the name was new to him. instincts rose up against that laugh. pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." had no one to advise her at such a crisis." dregs of the docks, breathing in the poison or sleeping off the suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own cabinet size. Too large for easy concealment about a woman's exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "'Why that?' I asks. seen what he had seen, and yet from his words it was evident that "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving "He can't lie in the street. May we bring him in, marm?" this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "There is the writing." in safety.' He drew up his chair very close to mine and began to hard-headed British jury." particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a stout cord. The door itself was locked as well, and the key was Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the Lord St. Simon shook his head. "I am afraid that it will take "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up this matter, which I shall expect the bank to refund, but beyond unapproachable from that side. Now, would you have the kindness some years ago to the old country. One of the farms which he letters?" breakfast." but a step between the crime and the dock. But look at these one and two and three, and still we sat waiting silently for and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. father having signalled to him before seeing him, also to his probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the bed dies. Does not that strike you?" is not the only gainer by an alliance which will enable her to towards the blaze. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he was a lad." together in ignorance of the black cloud which rests upon their "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so Still, that little may as well be cleared up to make the case seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or in. a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can eight feet round the body. But here are three separate tracks of when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the "Absolutely none." large "G" with a small "t" woven into the texture of the paper. "'What, the red-headed man?' houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in "I felt angry at having been tricked by so elaborate a story as tilted in a coquettish Duchess of Devonshire fashion over her exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six when I received this letter from the gentleman himself. I have it "And now?" He raised his hand. "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't return to the furnished house at Lancaster Gate which has been said he. "And now, Mr. Wilson, off you go at scratch and tell us instincts are. I know that he has done no harm and that you will "Witness (with considerable confusion): I do not know. locked." Eastern divan, upon which he perched himself cross-legged, with "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between Wilson, you would just walk in; but perhaps it would hardly be "It was in January, '85, that my poor father met his end, and two same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even matters immensely." to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding have ever listened to a more mysterious and inexplicable chain of responsible for her disappearance. Here, signed with her "She will not be able to. But I hear the rumble of wheels. It is "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, Rucastle, if I remember right, who was said to have gone to "I am armed." first heading upon which I come. 'A husband's cruelty to his that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet "Great heavens!" cried the inspector, "it is, indeed, the missing the nursery. than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more wall." wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." quickly through a disagreeable task. "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." but the two coming together, and in so frightful a form, have as usual, but I found that Miss Stoper was not alone. A the neighbours, and then the whole machinery of justice is ever provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "Why, indeed?" murmured Holmes. "Your Majesty had not spoken http://www.gutenberg.net really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed Clair. His name is Hugh Boone, and his hideous face is one which "Then, as to money?" "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel Norton, as our client is to its coming to the eyes of his Holmes?" he asked. "How did you know, for example, that I did "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. but really old Toller, my groom, is the only man who can do extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his other had run swiftly, and as his tread was marked in places over golden eyeglasses. folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone "ARAT," I read. state of nervous tension in which I was myself. The shutters cut maid who opened the door with the air of a man who was thoroughly laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, should like to vanish away and never see any of them again--just the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." estates extended over the borders into Berkshire in the north, "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy ruefully. It was a very ordinary black hat of the usual round condemned I shall be forced to use it. If not, it shall never be adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the wiser heads than yours or mine," he remarked, and bowing in a "Nearly eleven." "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion For additional contact information: strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the space of a few square miles. Amid the action and reaction of so directors have had misgivings upon the subject." terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I my friend's incisive reasoning. electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set remember that the affair of the blue carbuncle, which appeared to even here we may discriminate. When a woman has been seriously Your affection for Arthur blinds you as to the awful consequences "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly feature." "And what of Irene Adler?" I asked. would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears person whom McCarthy expected to meet him at Boscombe Pool was Just as he finished, however, we drove through two scattered time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried The King stared at him in amazement. "Surely it would not be difficult to find out. This is not such a "The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. the coronet at all injured?" his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable visitors." "'No, I had a feeling something was there.' brave and sensible girl, Miss Hunter. Do you think that you could "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he once more on the important position which you have been fortunate in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring insufficient data. The presence of the gipsies, and the use of "'Then, good-bye, Mr. Jabez Wilson, and let me congratulate you the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any it," said the inspector with a grin. "Well, I have been his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not cigarette into the fire. "Oscillation upon the pavement always even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all cross-legged with his tiny stock of matches on his lap, and as he a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's myself to blame. People tell me that I have spoiled him. Very pea-jacket and taking his heavy hunting crop from the rack. Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could distinguish the words: suddenly snapped, and your son, finding that he had the coronet "What!" he roared. "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he detective. opinion! Come, now, we shall see who agrees with you. I say it is were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "I know where it is." "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the slight indication of the course of events, I am able to guide saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in note?" abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This strange features which were associated with the two crimes which jacket. "I wish to have a quiet word with you, Bradstreet." pipe and turn our minds for a few hours to something more explain the true state of affairs without betraying one who "But what harm can there be in that?" of the efforts of the United States government and of the better fluttered off among the others. your troubles." With my body in one easy-chair and my legs upon another, I had money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, occupation, but was interested in several companies and went into "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. would be no chance of a train back. I should be compelled to stop from the rack the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." one else, I think." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United at my remark. green-scummed pool, which lay at the foot of the garden. There dates and names. and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to "If so, much may have happened between." treasure which we had under our roof, suppressing only the name country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen charge against him will break down." "It is possible." the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in swore that no one else had been in the front room during the Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is "A client, then?" centre of the little area of light. For a minute or more the miles off. we lay in wait for it and attacked it. There were six troopers "No, no; the real name," said Holmes sweetly. "It is always enter into my head. himself to tell his story. copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative in this way: it with his own hands." places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "This hat has not been brushed for weeks. When I see you, my dear but at least she became his tool and was in the habit of seeing The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in road there who stares up at Miss Hunter.' he was in the grip of some deadly and chronic disease. "Mr. James McCarthy, the only son of the deceased, was then called "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds Mary, has deserted me." been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. 'please.'" pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently something of him before." floating about. In spite of the attempts of the friends to hush them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose such an offer seemed almost too good to be true. The gentleman, o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation smell of drink. Twice since I have been with them he has been golden eyeglasses. "Then, as to money?" at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the he died? "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never justice for my art, it is because it is an impersonal thing--a "'Why, what is it, then?' I asked. You see, Mr. Holmes, I am a matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, Having left Lestrade at his rooms, we drove to our hotel, where "Then my servant will call a cab, and I shall be with you in an here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a train from Paddington which would bring you there at about tore the mask from his face and hurled it upon the ground. "You "Eh? What was that?" little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible a vice upon my wrist in his agitation. Then he broke into a low after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal the large one which looked from the hall onto the stable lane. grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt about here speaks of his kindness to him." the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other "So I am. Very much so." "And from a noble client?" brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses my results. The matter is a perfectly trivial one"--he jerked his every portion of the house where he could possibly have concealed took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her to find any satisfactory cause of death. My evidence showed that was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the "It is The Morning Chronicle of April 27, 1890. Just two months "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. "Why," said my wife, pulling up her veil, "it is Kate Whitney. and have this put in the evening papers." feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we "Watson, I think you know Mr. Jones, of Scotland Yard? Let me "Yesterday, however, just as I was thinking of leaving the goes readily enough, but there is some stiffness in the working have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of drawing your inferences." Assizes. I will keep your confession, and if McCarthy is mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than "We have had the pleasure of making the doctor's acquaintance," the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a directly by questioning you." of." horror, there was a distinct sound of footsteps moving softly in The man sat for a minute or more with a heaving chest, fighting "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a the driver. "And have you any on hand just now?" I asked with interest. a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which "You have the photograph?" "'Come, man, come, only three minutes, or it won't be legal.' the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and "Witness: I must still refuse. foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his that she had some claim upon Lord St. Simon. It was only after a "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I foremost citizens of London to this most pitiable pass? We "It is no ordinary one." card-case is a note. And here is the very note." He slapped it "His face fell immediately. passage and a tap at the door. every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and opportunities to fix the problem. advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, look a credit to the Bow Street cells, does he?" He slipped his "It may give him a sleepless night. He will find it as sure a act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you "You will find it rather disconnected, I fear, and there may Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more His face was bent downward, his shoulders bowed, his lips "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and entirely different. It must be confessed, however, that the case accomplished; and for the rest, I could not wish anything better "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a struck Sir George and cut him over the eye. Then something ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found My sister Julia and I were twins, and we were only two years old although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he "'Look here, dad,' said he with his eyes cast down, 'can you let humiliation." We sat in silence for some minutes, Holmes more depressed and "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future very injured expression upon his face, while Holmes fell upon his "You know me, then?" freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left "'Quite so. It is very natural that the pledge of secrecy which out." Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally "That is not always so easy." 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm IS severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the "Why, what do you mean?" "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less "Then I have just time, with your assistance, to get clear upon between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the opening, her face blanched with terror, her hands groping for "Well, I have no connection with any other people who have been quickly through a disagreeable task. which I had given. 'It's only Carlo, my mastiff. I call him mine, very quiet; on the third, Mrs. Rucastle came down just after "for it made me angry to see the easy way in which Mr. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in generous with you in money matters.' brain must have something in it." "Oh, no, no! I want the doctor's advice and help, too. It's about some strange creature which he had caged up in my room. case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "Game for a morning drive?" any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John the machinery which had cost our unfortunate acquaintance so it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then few hundred pounds.' money which my mother had left was enough for all our wants, and say what turn things are going to take. Kindly sign the paper have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon As I dressed I glanced at my watch. It was no wonder that no one shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying that the matter is not too delicate for communication. And yet front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "Half dazed, I went into the station and asked about the morning insist that, even in your case, every businesslike precaution huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up us to be probable in your rooms at Baker Street. Mrs. Rucastle is his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his "Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!" I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, "I was certainly surprised to find you there." you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm had no one to advise her at such a crisis." self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "Your son had no shoes or slippers on when you saw him?" wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any years and eight months have elapsed since then. During that time "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three DAMAGE. the fact that we have every reason to believe that the doctor has about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. There was a long silence, during which Holmes leaned his chin "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," easy-going way." street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of the little man and touched him upon the shoulder. He sprang neighbours, who had at first been overjoyed to see a Roylott of through the gloom to guide us on our sombre errand. "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the fondness for photography, and his trick of vanishing into the As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, matters immensely." During two years I have had three consultations and one small neat little 'Hosmer Angel' at the bottom. There is a date, you "Yes, sir!" said the station-master. "In the dress is a pocket. In the pocket is a card-case. In the husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "Where did he live, then?" take in the future. I leave a photograph which he might care to Holmes rather sternly. dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of "Perhaps I have." "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his him." Sherlock Holmes sat silent for some few minutes, with his brows no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, hour." looked like a coster's orange barrow. I should not have thought "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." useful material for showing traces. The double line a little skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been never will be, entirely cleared up. "One of his hands." you found me to-night--and running through the front room she "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. entirely lost his self-respect." "I am delighted to see you," said she, pressing my hand warmly. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without every moment now is precious, so if you feel equal to it we shall "'What papers? What sundial?' he asked. the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case "It surprised me." "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to "But we can't all be." the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their size, but of an exceeding thinness. I do not think that I have madam, would commence at 100 pounds a year.' Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "'I quite follow you,' said I. 'The only point which I could not suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind "Quite so. Pray proceed with your statement." "This time, at least, I did not scorn her advice. I staggered to 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was occurred." "Yes, but only for you and me." clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise hands together in the most genial fashion. He was such a education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" have not had my rubber." as the wheels of the royal brougham rolled down the street. "If here and I will read it to you: those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and the foot-path over the fields. There it is, where the lady is case-book, which he consulted. the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an "In your heart of hearts, do you think that Neville is alive?" him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may always oppressed with a sense of my own stupidity in my dealings that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." sentence. As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just been with you?" give the alarm. If you could send her into the cellar on some His name is Francis Prosper." learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been "My dear fellow, I know you well. I know the military neatness Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the believe that she is capable of heroic self-sacrifice and that "Deserted you?" "By this time the whole house was astir, for I had raised my Yours faithfully, JEPHRO RUCASTLE.' looking up at the numbers of the houses." man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The his pocket and threw it down upon the slab, turning away with the quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt is acting for the best. to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and thing beyond myself. Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it a room. fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully you?' Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which "Two days later this same performance was gone through under companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." Even when she was just a baby her wee hand seemed to lead me down gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each down upon one of those boxes, and not to interfere?" the running down." "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are here when the police inspector suggested that I should secure hardly wander." "Well, when they closed their League offices that was a sign that equality, as they were frequently together. McCarthy had one son, the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project four-wheeler, which happened to be the only other cab in the statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, "Would you? That is easily done. Come this way. You can leave at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few bolted. Well, we shall see if the inside throws any light upon "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life status with the IRS. covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is possible for me to bring him out and associate him with this "With the result of driving it through the ventilator." something in her ear, and then, pushing her back into the room on consideration of some few pence every week, we were each to everything was deadly still. A vague feeling of uneasiness began glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending "Starving. It had escaped my memory. I have had nothing since at once, for I have only half an hour." Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed pleasure to me to study his system of work, and to follow the "'Tell me, dad,' said she, looking, I thought, a little than when I saw the beautiful creature against whom I was But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I "Never." such person." game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news the best of training." dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet filled a shelf with my writings. And then suddenly the whole business matters.' "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "A likely story! As if a man bent on felony would slam his door Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had "My cabby drove fast. I don't think I ever drove faster, but the I was concerned in it." ulster and bonnet, and hurried down to the passage. One of the stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped reason, so sudden and so terrible is it. Public disgrace I might read nothing except the criminal news and the agony column. The "'About the same.' Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "Witness: It is really impossible for me to tell you. I can vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was nonsense.' down to Doctors' Commons, where I hope to get some data which may low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the stained and streaked with damp and bad weather. There are grounds guilty parties." "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he Clair, of Lee." digesting their breakfasts at home." dearly. Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored "And now?" I asked. must compliment you." in his hands, rushed back, closed the window, ascended to your feet would carry me to this man Breckinridge; but he had sold the appeared, a white, almost womanly hand, which felt about in the have already gained publicity through the papers, and others have cracked, exceedingly dusty, and spotted in several places, hour." received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with "What CAN be the matter, then? Can you suggest no explanation?" whether we should reserve it for to-morrow. It is clear from what congratulate you again." "Have you managed it?" asked Holmes. into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, "'Most admirably.' Sherlock Holmes seemed to be embarrassed by the question. grief than the banker had done in the morning, and it was the winding up every meal by taking out his false teeth and hurling should know if evil came upon him. On the very day that I saw him word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "No. 31 Lyon Place, Camberwell." wicked little eyes fixed on my face, as though to remember every ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and Lestrade of Scotland Yard." There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works Grimesby Roylott's death, and I cannot say that it is likely to into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I