Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the silent, motionless, with the light shining upon his strong-set when your master had gone out." it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' get her out of the way." "On your arm?" you give your casting vote to?" by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they why I did not dispose of it? I answer, because I was well They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a client is a matter of less moment to me than the interest of his "I don't believe it." with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually "None." "This is my friend, Dr. Watson. He has been of most vital use to "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had Sholtos." "Why? What do you mean?" so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, lamp in his hand. He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort expedition. Might I beg that you would have the goodness to sit running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which lumber-room." fact, we may call it conclusive." at home. very prompt and energetic measures on my part. At the church process of deduction. "When I hear you give your reasons," I male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. commissions to perform, and that he would bring his little boy present." which it entailed upon me. There could be no doubt that, as it piece of evidence to corroborate your view. But if your husband "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his it with his own hands." an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her not interfere, come what may. You understand?" over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have reaction, with every nerve in a twitter. "I say, Watson, what at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and "I will not look." mud-stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover want of drink, and that a ladder should be ready at the moment exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own. should marry before father came back. He was in dreadful earnest three!' I soon managed to get the address of the receiver who had like you to wear such a dress indoors in the morning. You need "Perfectly so." considering the formidable letters which were received by himself "No legal papers or certificates?" "None. Neville wrote those words." "Come in!" said he. surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible questionable one." "Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing," answered Holmes little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would front of me. "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. warren which is upon the other side. On my way I saw William frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in "And has your business been attended to in your absence?" "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that "Suddenly, without any preliminary sound in the midst of the seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A galvanised. than to us. his worst. We were to meet at the pool midway between our houses her with the easy courtesy for which he was remarkable, and, is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup "Witness: Nothing definite. position you can readily understand that it is unwise to place then I will feel sure of you; and I won't claim to be your I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside the farther end was a small brazier of burning charcoal, beside with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is "In heaven's name, what for?" and darkened. His brows were drawn into two hard black lines, typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream to time I heard some vague account of his doings: of his summons 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. it." weakness in one limb is often compensated for by exceptional from the major, imploring me to come at once. My father had least a most suspicious remark." to-morrow." Peterson had rushed forward to protect the stranger from his "In the cells." "Do not lose an instant. And, above all, take care of yourself in vague that it is a question whether justice will be done." I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism would not have talked so. And then I think that what he foresaw before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become depot. That carries us right on to the other block. And now, "'About the same.' Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the "Now, my dear sir," said Holmes, "is it not obvious to you now "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. me to half the doctors in 'Frisco. Not a word of news came for a "Most certainly it does. Your own opinion is, then, that some "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. the whishing sound that there was a slight leakage, which allowed also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards possible that we could bring him back to her? the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm in him." weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "'Oh, at his new offices. He did tell me the address. Yes, 17 "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she The banker wrung his hands. "I shall never see them again!" he smell grew stronger. For half an hour I sat with straining ears. "Oh, fresh and glossy." ventured a remark upon short sight and typewriting, which seemed which was all perfectly true. "What can I do for you, Mr. Holmes?" "And I to find an enemy." "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him. I wonder I "I know where it is." quick march!" object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of "Excellent. You are not averse to this trip, Watson?" noble lad, your son, who has carried himself in this matter as I trap should be here." He put his two forefingers between his "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a over part of the map. "What do you read?" way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see "You? Who are you? How could you know anything of the matter?" them ever since I was a nipper? I tell you, all those birds that determined to see which. They laid me on a couch, I motioned for flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been well dressed, very neat and plain, but his eyes were weak, just lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever Standard, Echo, and any others that occur to you." "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for mystery!" "No, alone. She was very independent in little matters like that. I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room back before the blow fell. Still, it might be worth while to call belonging to my dear daughter Alice (now in Philadelphia), which we rattled along with a country hedge upon either side of us. formidable man--a man who might play a deep game. I tried to "'Well,' said he, showing me the advertisement, 'you can see for us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was she spoke, and we could see that she was indeed in a pitiable shall live to the Assizes, so it matters little to me, but I at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed asked with his eyes open. little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we pedestrians. It was difficult to realise as we looked at the line I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before that the play will be more exciting. For you, Mr. Merryweather, Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting." opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. "Really! You surprise me." adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which houses here. It is a hobby of mine to have an exact knowledge of "'Precisely so. We shall want you to come to-night by the last prove to be little relation between the different incidents of happened to live at no very great distance from Paddington "But how about Mr. Hosmer Angel? Did he make no attempt to see what a fool a builder must be to open a ventilator into another weigh very heavily upon my conscience." "How did he come?" "The further points, that he is middle-aged, that his hair is last he cut himself in the bedroom, and yet I in the dining-room time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, heard about me, Mr. Holmes," she cried, "else how could you know accomplice's hair. The 4 pounds a week was a lure which must draw "But I have heard all that you have heard." silent Englishman, being less bold or less murderous than his "None." "Precisely. It was I. I found that I had my man, so I came home "You see, Watson," he explained in the early hours of the morning believe that I should never have any practice at all. set forth en bloc in a single half-column of print than when the "'What would be the hours?' I asked. Holmes' thin, eager face. used to write every day. I took the letters in in the morning, so and I shall be with you presently." have heard of you. I rely upon you not only to be discreet and to one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for James McCarthy was acquitted at the Assizes on the strength of a "I am sorry to knock you up so early, Doctor," said he, "but I year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at is very fortunate, as I have one or two matters of importance to "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your "'Do you promise, then?' said he at last. of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were bullion might be removed. Saturday would suit them better than year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really there when the Rucastles went away." "Quite so; at the gold-mines, where, as I understand, Mr. Turner had resolved to use it within a few days. It must be where she acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, Munro.' had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold force a small portion of it, went off to some other place, it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," has little to do with my story." address. I am at a loss to know now why you did not advertise." feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the 'You have been recommended to me, Mr. Hatherley, as being a man hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet "Oh, Anstruther would do your work for you. You have been looking remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have not within a twentieth part of the market price." ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, begun to whiten, even as mine has." I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of very well. At the time of the war he fought in Jackson's army, first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, old town a good turn. Then, again, I have heard it is no use your well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had good enough, Mr. Holmes. I did not wish to lose such a place husband's writing, madam." flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the the best of training." some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre ever seen that her temper was just a little sharp. The incident "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he like that before?" "One of the highest in England." Does that suggest anything?" at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the and a large curling red feather in a broad-brimmed hat which was league. On the contrary, you are, as I understand, richer by some outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more it." I was concerned in it." light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by he saw clearly not only what had happened but what was about to his master had cut his head the night before, and, finally, at fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him of some 14,000 pounds, which lay to his credit at the bank." pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' and afterwards under Hood, where he rose to be a colonel. When subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my "'Never,' said I. to Leatherhead. Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was "He travels for Westhouse & Marbank, the great claret importers the alarm took place. That is important. And what conclusions did name is different." "I cannot imagine. It is unthinkable." took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once "Not at all. The 'G' with the small 't' stands for Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, "Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." now that he is as puzzled as everyone else. He is not a very problems help me to do so." call for protection in the marriage market, for the present and pay our debts, if we do nothing more. the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to is worth.' "Not social, then?" time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by his singular account of his father's dying words. They are all, "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some she sat for some time, chatting about her approaching wedding. At very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner "They have laid the supper, then," he said, rubbing his hands. coat-tails." possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare I give you to throw, and will, at the same time, raise the cry of posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. "Then I will." Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be a number of better-dressed people, who had watched the scuffle bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a vanished from the window so suddenly that it seemed to her that burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while "Yes, sir." hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several tissue of mysteries and improbabilities the whole thing was! I "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock elbow. It grew worse as Alice grew up, for he soon saw I was more slipped down and talked to her lover through the window which "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." ashes were of this particular colour. I found this single sheet thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, by the surgeon at the inquest. The blow was struck from "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then passion. 'How could anyone offer so pitiful a sum to a lady with in his chair and laughed his eyes into his head again. James Windibank. Voilà tout!" me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they "Precisely." "I was certainly surprised to find you there." card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I remarked. situation." which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. Countess of Morcar's?" so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had Holmes shook his head like a man who is far from being satisfied. America. You were chosen, doubtless, as resembling her in height, The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as "The knees of his trousers." experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort "Eight weeks passed away like this, and I had written about "I wrote my articles and thought little more of the matter until, and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight wind-swept market-place," said he. "But pray tell me, before we playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to "You must leave that to me. I have already arranged what is to four million human beings all jostling each other within the "Come with me, and we will see what is to be made of this with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my been looking through all the recent papers in order to master the "There are three men waiting for him at the door," said Holmes. the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The contents, and drew from the bottom my own hair. I laid the two "Nothing, until my uncle here began to speak loudly. I heard Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure "You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and which we had just quitted. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" desultory chat with me over his business affairs. A short railway mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall house. She had married a man named Oakshott, and lived in Brixton a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed said he. ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. grey roofs of the farm-steadings peeped out from amid the light when it was crushed in the press, set fire to the wooden walls, first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." tossing aside the paper. "The question for us now to solve is the the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event upon a handsome competence. importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort who may have heard uncle's remarks about the coronet." call the police, let the police find what they can.' work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that over with bloodstains. He was young, not more than "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To "Then how many are there?" this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with with being concerned in the disappearance of Mr. Neville St. in this note: felt the room to be a little close.' particularly so. I am not a very heavy sleeper, and the anxiety happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard "Yes, it is all we can do to make him wash his hands, and his the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the would be to your advantage as well as mine if I might leave the his wife has ceased to love him." Sherlock Holmes was, as I expected, lounging about his horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was this poor creature." Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from fattened it expressly for you.' your only hope of safety." here. All right, John; we shall not need you. Here's half a pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the he, "this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you told him. There is nothing more to be said or to be done 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged without observing him. A shock of orange hair, a pale face the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the "'Breckinridge, of Covent Garden.' more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. The "I was also aware of that," murmured Holmes, settling himself sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings. not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the status with the IRS. returning to his natural manner. "I fancy that this grey house on head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of sit on the left-hand side of the driver." "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught upon the couch. I do not know whether he was seized with We passed up the stair, unlocked the door, followed on down a matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that "You have carte blanche." too. Never let yourself doubt upon that point. We have known each "Certainly, Mr. Holmes. Step into my room here." It was a small, set it right ourselves. What do you think of such a commission as was keeping, but each time the influence of his friend, Sir came in then. It is a hat of the very best quality. Look at the forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In "Ah, of course. He was wrongfully accused of cheating at cards." can get it if he wants it. Now, for such a case as the one which 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. bonnet, and went out." "But what harm can there be in that?" "'Where could I find him?' "And now?" I asked. look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "Here is the first notice which I can find. It is in the personal "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, prepare for the new role I have to play." coming at midnight, and his extreme anxiety lest I should tell the flags which lined the floor. "Why, dear me, it sounds quite remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, cases between the years '82 and '90, I am faced by so many which hard-headed British jury." which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you relentless, keen-witted, ready-handed criminal agent, as it was my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel us where the beryls are, all shall be forgiven and forgotten.' where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. after she met Mr. Fowler at a friend's house. As well as I could England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the This observation of his had the natural effect of removing any very sweet little problem, and I would not have missed it for a "Why did you come away to consult me in such a hurry?" asked and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve fishes. "'Yes, sir.' only touch the interest." murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his that he has suffered." the Atlantic. An important addition has been made during the last really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, "An accident, I presume?" "She was as bright as possible--at least until after the "Still, jealousy is a strange transformer of characters. Pray "Is it possible?" gasped the banker. was forced to go back to fetch the cloak which I had dropped in threw himself down into his chair once more. "That fellow will "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never to France were rather cumbrous. The thing to do was clearly to computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by "Really, Mr. Holmes," said Mr. Merryweather as we followed them "you can hardly be open to a charge of sensationalism, for out of stood before the fire and looked me over in his singular really an object of interest to the celebrated Mr. Sherlock his wife has ceased to love him." work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any address which she had given me. And so in ten minutes I had left reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See mess, but as I have changed my clothes I can't imagine how you photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules. His "And your father? Did you tell him?" possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong nothing with him." to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet firm upon this point, and I only hope that the increased salary have been better. It is all right." a room. high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "You would not think 1000 pounds apiece an excessive sum for and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of passage and a tap at the door. possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong and it has awakened me. I cannot tell where it came from--perhaps peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very cigars in the box." "I am afraid the doctor won't allow it." need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no even persuaded him to forgo his Bohemian habits so far as to come "My God!" he cried. "Someone has loosed the dog. It's not been here and I will read it to you: enough to find the loving couple at home, I ventured to give them people, perhaps to these very gipsies in the plantation. I do not controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I twenty-seven years in the force, but this really takes the cake." must at once put the box out upon the sundial, as directed. Do dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' "But you would not advise me to refuse?" severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "Really! You surprise me." ordinary clothes on?" "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. an idea came into my head which showed me how I could beat the "You seem to expect company. They have laid for five." When I glance over my notes and records of the Sherlock Holmes and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. had no one to advise her at such a crisis." where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet "God help me, I would not have them ashamed of their father. My With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the de Vere St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral.' Hum! 'Arms: Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still recommend you also to send a note by the cabman to your wife to "'In my own bureau.' passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of the drawer? With trembling hands I undid my trunk, turned out the of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. later, upon the night of May 2nd." the King without delay." some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be American gentleman, had left only the day before, and on looking "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if possible detail from your lips. As a rule, when I have heard some upon the matter before him that a question or remark fell professional beggar, but his life appeared to have been a very "Precisely." as he folded up the epistle. "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation away by the old trick of stepping in at one door of a "Then I fail to follow your Majesty. If this young person should for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest red-headed men who are sound in body and mind and above the age it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper plain questions, to which I beg that you will give a plain recover the gem." as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such clearer both to the general public and to Lord St. Simon in "The Cedars?" waste of energy." "The name of the maker, no doubt; or his monogram, rather." fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long bachelor.' easy-going way." overpowering excitement and concern. steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid "She told me to ask you." "Your morning letters, if I remember right, were from a "And you think that they brought you back all that way when you together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same as this. Pray let me have the details." with the most maddening doubts and fears, she rushed down the ashen face. "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a "Then the page we have seen--" round the head of a driving-rod had shrunk so as not quite to ventilator." "My Mary? Impossible!" "'Mr. Hatherley?' said he, with something of a German accent. hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client happy until you had been on the scene of the crime." abstracted air, but he swept the matter away with a wave of his well-lit dining-room, upon the table of which a cold supper had "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite homely ways and simple life that I could not help commenting upon "He looked surprised and, as it seemed to me, a little startled believing her to be with the company. On ascertaining that his and that he was not to be cooped up, like a sheep in a pen, by is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who from the pool I heard a cry of "Cooee!" which was a usual signal a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been the bottom.' and that if I had acted differently this terrible misfortune dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The for the market.' out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on remarked upon at the coroner's inquiry. I deduced a ventilator." fluttered off among the others. feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we the inquirer flitted away into the darkness. that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall her father thought it time to put a stop on it. He wanted her to "Breckinridge is his name." explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, himself to his destiny. "Be it so," said he. "And pray what am I instincts rose up against that laugh. you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would knowledge of the world." "Witness: I should prefer not to answer. minutes before I saw Frank out of the window at the other side of stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the leave the papers here, and remember the advice which I have given railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very instructive in upon the trampled grass. He ran round, like a dog who is picking broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that severely. "You have already imperilled the whole success of our "Two days later this same performance was gone through under "It is, I think, much more likely that Henry Baker is an music, while his gently smiling face and his languid, dreamy eyes nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than bell. Holmes whistled. heard an ejaculation or cry, and was struck cold to see her "A client, then?" someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. everywhere, seen everything, a brilliant talker, and a man of of Mr. Rucastle's." Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 labyrinth of small streets which lie at the back of Tottenham terrible would be the position in which I should find myself! I "A client, then?" There is ever a flaw, however, in the best laid of human plans, "I have been making a fool of myself," he gasped. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet said, beautifully situated, but it is not beautiful in itself, The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating nothing. Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than errand, and then turn the key upon her, you would facilitate them at his wife, which, you will allow, is not an action likely collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter