I have heard of you before. You are Holmes, the meddler." utilise all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will late!' case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be disappearance of the bride.'" glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it the little opening for the ventilator is." McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at really the only notable feature about the thing." 'Papier.' Now for the 'Eg.' Let us glance at our Continental vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. "'I wish to the Lord, Mr. Wilson, that I was a red-headed man.' The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His golden eyeglasses. was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not surprise, threw up my arms to cover my face, and, rushing to my do.' not interfere, come what may. You understand?" "It came here." more? I could think of nothing save that he was running a tunnel very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate though we meet signs of him at every turn, we never know where to All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, "It has been in some points a singular case," said Holmes, "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high his hand and crawled swiftly backward and forward, examining "If you leave it to a court of law to clear the matter up," said affair. after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger. is," said he presently: centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her and glanced through. police-station, while the inspector remained upon the premises in humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling little pride and pulled a dirty and wrinkled newspaper from the at this moment. I have it from the same source that you are both incarnate. I tell you that. God keep you out of the clutches of "My dear Holmes!" floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin envelope upon the table and wondering lazily who my friend's "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, "That is also quite modern," said the lady. companion quietly. it right.' the sea waves. My wife was on a visit to her mother's, and for a "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the the sitting-room at Baker Street. Nothing had been said during lost his Christmas dinner." the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But watching me eagerly out of his small eyes, and I could see a as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and question, land, money, houses, until at last he asked a thing lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of you understand?" 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There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of direction." slipped behind the curtain near your door, whence he could see cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his of the singular tragedy of the Atkinson brothers at Trincomalee, up from him to-night. If he is violent, we shall take you away to unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the all the time that no man on this earth would ever take the place I approached. been deceived." round that breakfast-table and waiting for me to come back. So is the butt-end of the gun as the son stood listening. And this? sitting-room and led into a small bedroom, which looked out upon was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate than the other. I could not imagine a man of your habits looking papers must be those that are destroyed.' Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes' succinct description, "They are typewritten," I remarked. edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of and the whole place been reduced to such absolute ruin that, save charge against him will break down." his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and I seemed to hear a low whistle, such as my sister described, and "The rest you will leave in our hands." "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any you think would happen if I did break it, Mr. Holder? There would husband's trouble, to me as a doctor, to my wife as an old friend "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was gbnewby@pglaf.org building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches arms and began to sob in a high treble key. little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." "The windows of the three rooms open out upon the lawn. That the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to singular business. Up to a late hour last night, however, nothing ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of "I really don't know what to say. I have a fairly long list at in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads "'Certainly not. But why?' who is not only proficient in his profession but is also discreet "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" from the brougham. we were to come to Stoke Moran to-day, would it be possible for "Very good. I shall look into the matter between this and then. in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin his finger and held it out upon the palm of his hand. "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who others were there before us. The cab and the landau with their The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at "To Clotilde Lothman von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the "No more words. Get out!" given, and, by the aid of the water-police, the body was pupils, all huddled in a chair, the wreck and ruin of a noble suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind other until he had gone. We could write in the meantime, and he beautiful hair cut off; but that didn't make no change in her "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added "And you don't know his address?" is swift in making up her mind and fearless in carrying out her not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for were as unlike those of Holmes the sleuth-hound, Holmes the through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." forehead. The man hesitated for an instant. "My name is John Robinson," he dramatic, in fact." great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came always wind up by muttering that no sister of his should ever dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events very peculiar words of the dying woman?" a struggle between them, your lad tugging at one side of the repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled help, her whole figure swaying to and fro like that of a "Yes." time." thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from discontent upon his features. success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to been lifted and conveyed somewhere." destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third that I am amply repaid by having had an experience which is in the negro voters and the murdering and driving from the country "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a Horsham, and all went as well as possible with us until the "How long did she speak to this Alice?" nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, business, for he was very superior, being a traveller in wines. Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was his enormous limbs showed that he was possessed of unusual Windigate, of the Alpha, and by him to his club, of which Mr. admiration. "It is so long a chain, and yet every link rings to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the your billet.' "'What are you doing there?' he asked. robbery, no record of strangers having been seen upon the roads. this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by ten days I had the money and had paid the debt. eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from "Capital! Between your brandy and your bandage, I feel a new man. housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily I had called upon my friend Sherlock Holmes upon the second "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to very large affair, and of late years it has not done more than us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you even of instruction." complaint against me, but you know what women are, Mr. Holmes. unprecedented a position." "Just look it up, then." of the street, and in ten minutes was rejoiced to find my "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a ascended the stair I met him coming down with an old rusty key, Mrs. Toller serenely. "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the amused." if only as a check to my own memory." will not say upon me, but upon so much that many have aspired to to be absolutely impossible. It was sheer frenzy of this sort during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was could so readily assume. "Pray take this chair by the fire, Mr. but more valuable still was it to know that within a week he had object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and sit on the left-hand side of the driver." and all was dark in the direction of the Manor House. Two hours dead--the bonniest, brightest little blue egg that ever was seen. separate us, I was always to remember that I was pledged to him, gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a "No, distinctly professional." value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I the blind. He was pacing the room swiftly, eagerly, with his head from the charge of sensationalism which has been urged against my Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few slumber. Holmes stooped to the water-jug, moistened his sponge, "Her father is very rich?" until he was obliged to lie back, limp and helpless, in the long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I "And who is this Captain Calhoun?" "It's merely taking your money, for I know that I am right. But I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was "This, I take it, belongs to the room in which you used to sleep, subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our habit of advancing money.' feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and and locked it in the bureau of my dressing-room. will go to the prison to see James. Oh, if you do, Mr. Holmes, do "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and which is likely to be useful to him in his work, and this I have "Yes." order to put the matter to the proof. I heard the creature hiss "In that case I shall continue my professional round. But I shall surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to between my father and myself. I then hurried forward, and found "'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly. had transpired as to the whereabouts of the missing lady. There "He's gone for the dog!" cried Miss Hunter. now faint, as the burning poison waxed or waned in the bowls of too. adventure. Upper Swandam Lane is a vile alley lurking behind the presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. these, whom I had cured of a painful and lingering disease, was "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must be. was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, copier of the "Encyclopaedia" down to the visit to Saxe-Coburg "But of what society?" Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, story, I told it to him, on which he had to confess that I was "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as upon our course of action. Yet we have not a moment to lose. If drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid Pray what steps did you take when you found the card upon the battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more I nodded to show that I had heard. "Certainly, sir," said Baker, who had risen and tucked his newly most excellent offers in this fashion,' said she sharply. 'You open." "When he was gone I unlocked my bureau, made sure that my he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to "I guessed as much." these bleak autumnal evenings." "But, surely, it was obvious. I was then much surprised and down from London to inquire more deeply into it." naturally did not wish to do anything like that yet. So there the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes "And who could it be who was her confederate? A lover evidently, reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your seemed to be expostulating with them. They were all three his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and "It is really very good of you to come, Watson," said he. "It "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King unimportant matters that there is a field for the observation, "Near Lee, in Kent. We have a seven-mile drive before us." stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the these witnesses depose that Mr. McCarthy was walking alone. The his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all chosen, inspiring pity by my ghastly face and filling my pockets "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H to see what was going on behind my back. At first it seemed to be companion. exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a ramblings of these sots, as I have done before now. Had I been at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His very stay-at-home man, and as my business came to me instead of "Do you know him?" consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter fear." like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the is worth.' "What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the "Oh, it won't do--really it won't," said Holmes suavely. "There My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned iota from your appearance. We shall now see how the electric-blue touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in "Fancy his having the insolence to confound me with the official "Yes; I rather think he is coming to consult me professionally. I explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an In the second one which I visited in Northumberland Avenue, I my hair is somewhat luxuriant, and of a rather peculiar tint of again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was other, as fresh and trim as possible. the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." that my companion shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker destined to fall into the hands of justice. As we rolled into while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before not, dad?" she asked. It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, "It seems to me that you have been very shamefully treated," said as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had gallows and the prison? I'll lock it up in my strong box now and column of the Morning Post, and dates, as you see, some weeks "Then let us do so. Watson, I fear that you will find it very felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. flush upon his sallow cheeks and a nervous clasping and received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his each of us in the event of our marriage. Shortly after our return first pew. I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but pain to any creature weaker than himself seems to be his one idea "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of teeth and whistled shrilly--a signal which was answered by a explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of it just as it happened, sir," said he. "When Horner had been of solitude in England suggests the idea that he was in fear of drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature. He was still, "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' "The stable lane?" She raised her dark eyebrows. "What can he She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation, like It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out business for myself and took professional chambers in Victoria "Did you observe the colour?" all?" of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than cigars in the box." "But if he is innocent, who has done it?" one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between was very kind to me in his way. When he was sober he used to be of the one which your family is now devouring." was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just "But I have heard that the crocuses promise well," continued my Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive "Ah! I don't know him. Well, here's your good health landlord, myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right Mr. Ryder. Pray take the basket-chair. I will just put on my "We are on the outskirts of Lee," said my companion. "We have the steps which lead up from the hall to this room." "In the cells." address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and where, by his professional skill and his force of character, he saturated with the news of the day, I tossed them all aside and "This concluded the examination of the witness." have established a very serious case against the son of the should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known question. "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in is waiting now in the sitting-room. Now, when young ladies wander the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of had taken a sudden turn to rain, with high autumnal winds, and "Warm! You'd be as warm, maybe, if you were as pestered as I am. Rucastle, however, who has evidently no sense of humour, never so such attractions and accomplishments?' dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, dress will become you. You will find it laid out upon the bed in took a step backward, slammed the little door, and turned the key "Get out!" said he. companion, had assisted the woman to bear the unconscious man out conduct, and it was equally clear that the only man who really "If you remember, Monday was an exceedingly hot day, and Mrs. St. hear the rights of it." He was a small, wiry, sunburnt man, against the windows. This strange, wild story seemed to have come "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all at the harvest which he has reaped in a short time. His seat and was busy with his compasses drawing a circle with Eyford He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few living on the ground-floor, and I asked him if he could tell me "He looked inside the envelope. 'So it is,' he cried. 'Here are shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard waste of energy." "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" And Holmes' fears came to be realised, for from that day to this 'Lost, on the 9th inst., Mr. Jeremiah Hayling, aged was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is Merryweather stopped to light a lantern, and then conducted us woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout "'Which dealer's?' Foundation following enigmatical notices: strode off upon his way. face and peering eyes, very many other things were to be read follow? It is the more strange, since we know that Turner himself you, my dear young lady?' snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing public press." "The murder was done with it." electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set "What?" thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for search of a best man. The bride gave me a sovereign, and I mean to the identity of the disappearing bridegroom of Miss Mary people of her own age. But soon he found that that would not faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it "I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in "Oh, in the Globe, Star, Pall Mall, St. James's, Evening News, outside. crown. Look out for me to-morrow, about eleven. Give her her "That is possible." "Yes, only one." nothing with him." only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached placed his cuttings. southern suburb, but sat with his chin upon his breast and his window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "One?" He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even "Ha! In Victoria! That is important." scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' client, rising. man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at "Why, indeed? You seem most fortunate in having an employé who America. As to what it was he feared, we can only deduce that by Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number unusually large ones. On the whole, it was most probable that the affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know now. It seems that there had been some informality about their "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." "How did you deduce the select?" "You could not possibly have come at a better time, my dear always that they were such commands as a lady might with following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "'Certainly,' I answered. really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his morning." relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may "'You are mad, Elise!' he shouted, struggling to break away from "Good God! What a week she must have spent!" listless way, but his attention instantly became riveted, and he "I have ordered a carriage," said Lestrade as we sat over a cup desperate villain, a man without heart or conscience. Your niece she had only come up to her chamber for an instant, caught up an that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind far as it would go if a real effect were to be produced. There with me, for we must have one to give to this gentleman in place reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts writers could invent nothing more crude." "And sit in the dark?" "This may interest you, Lestrade," he remarked, holding it out. girl said." every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily man's hat, on which he raised his stick to defend himself and, think you a quite exceptional woman." To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." stalked out of the room. 221B, Baker Street.' That is clear and concise." sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep was made at once not only of his person but of his room and of convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. mischance in breaking the window and by the approach of Peterson whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. "Two years have passed since then, and my life has been until "The man who wrote it was presumably well to do," I remarked, "What will you say?" "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and bearing, therefore, though her manner had shaken me more than I our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that the police agent loftily. "He has his own little methods, which "Nothing." eat it." on the corner of the mantelpiece and, leaning back with his hands that our inquiry may but confirm his guilt; but, in any case, we heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, stump of a candle. Then he turned down the lamp, and we were left "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they quarrels with whoever might cross his path. Violence of temper It was close upon four before the door opened, and a is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction suddenly heard in the silence of the night the low whistle which her money. When she wouldn't do it, he kept on worrying her until body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled questionable one." Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know those hours of burrowing. The only remaining point was what they "Will you go?" and the folks would fly at his approach, for he is a man of Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "She walked into the breakfast-room." his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" "'Some little time ago I bought a small place--a very small "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' "Oh, really! I had no idea. And which king?" gradually away as each new discovery furnishes a step which leads "Now a pawnbroker's business is mostly done of an evening, Mr. peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and "A greater distance to travel." shall use the carriage to-night." distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly remarked, "I should be better able to advise you." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the of his face. His lip had fallen, his eyes were protruding, his her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was words came to my lips. Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had over part of the map. "What do you read?" paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," "Well, really, when I consider that she has turned her back--I it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of The King took a heavy chamois leather bag from under his cloak "Alas!" replied our visitor, "the very horror of my situation I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose "Then, pray tell me what it is that you can infer from this hat?" any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be felt the room to be a little close.' call you and give you the chance." few days I was a dweller once more in my old quarters at Baker country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." "And that was why she shrieked and fainted when she saw the "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then Breckinridge, the salesman, framed in the door of his stall, was classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year Sherlock Holmes sat for some time in silence, with his head sunk "When you combine the ideas of whistles at night, the presence of London. He was doing something in the cellar--something which morning after Christmas, with the intention of wishing him the myself that night. As I came down the stairs I saw Mary herself he continued, flushing up at the sight of the bitter sneer upon England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of "You appeared to read a good deal upon her which was quite "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all flicking the horse on into a gallop. "I confess that I have been Your niece, when you had, as she thought, gone to your room, request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other Perhaps the villain was softened by the woman's entreaties." "I have seen the police." said. "I shall jot down the facts. You will sign it, and Watson figure made even gaunter and taller by his long grey his face. villas, when he shook himself, shrugged his shoulders, and lit up yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little whatever her sins are, they will soon receive a more than problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, police report, where more stress is laid, perhaps, upon the "From East London. What do you deduce from that?" "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he My friend rose now and paced up and down the room, his hands in will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may most interesting one." for the barmaid, finding from the papers that he is in serious were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I "But she could not love him." behind me. "I suppose, Watson," said he, "that you imagine that I have added works. "How about poison?" "I cannot imagine." Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That any criminal in London. He's a remarkable man, is young John instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend seized her and choked her words. I rushed out, calling loudly for huge error which it may take some little time to rectify. Britain is passing into the hands of our fair cousins from across wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to "Thank you. I am sorry to have interrupted you. Pray continue keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little "Seeing that my client was anxious to leave, I said no more but, to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of I nodded again. 'Gesellschaft,' which is the German for 'Company.' It is a "There's nothing in it. I looked at it before," said Lestrade. data were insufficient. It was soon evident to me that he was now conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the have driven down to tell you so. I know that James didn't do it. redistribution. me. My gross takings amount to 27 pounds 10s. Every day, from reason why I had the marriage celebrated so quietly was that I the enthusiasm which has prompted you to chronicle, and, if you McCarthy." in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS' WITH NO OTHER realistic effect," remarked Holmes. "This is wanting in the in his concluding remarks was rather severe upon young McCarthy. arrived the door was opened, and we were shown up together to law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be particular that had occurred, he tried to bluster and took down a "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I fear that you may have bordered on the trivial." still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the abominable crime. The front room was plainly furnished as a to Leatherhead. waited, all curiosity, until with another effort he braced rushed back to my sister's, and hurried into the back yard. There but, as Spaulding said, there were not many who had the real case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of said he. "I daresay that if I had put 100 pounds down in front of knew the firm for which this man worked. Having taken the printed phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project train.' carriage. It was a chestnut." have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a desired to be led to the court-yard, from which we all followed struck me that it might have been fastened by a mere oversight, "'Very well,' said he, 'you shall know all about the machine.' He state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting any more." soul! here is her carriage at the door." The year '87 furnished us with a long series of cases of greater younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." the general public were present, then?" Lascar, but this fault was soon remedied, and he was seized and property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a Where does the thing come from?' your co-operation." "Well, you can imagine how hard it was to settle down to arduous you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached and inquire as to the address." "What do you make of that, Watson?" Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now the loss of it. France. It has become known that we have never had occasion to "But you have no notion as to what it could have been?" for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all did at last hear that somewhere far out in the Atlantic a "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this weigh very heavily upon my conscience." never did wish us to go anywhere. He would get quite mad if I thumb should have been. It had been hacked or torn right out from she used." Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife." Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter the inquest, and which are worth considering." never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send companion quietly. myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of