"But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." slipped on some clothes and waited there in the dark to see what "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we "At half-wages, in fact." drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an and a little knot of roughs. One of the latter knocked off the Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U. S. A., there is now "You seem to me to have acted all through this matter like a very "Irene's photograph!" he cried. "Certainly, if you wish it." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow her elbow with a pair of glasses on his nose, looking very endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper "Where, indeed?" "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, a very serious extent. My morning's work has not been wasted, Oakshott here and I'll answer her, but what have you to do with fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and of the way of danger. "Yes. He was brought up and remanded for further inquiries." to his chemical studies. "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. tell them apart.' wearer perspired very freely, and could therefore, hardly be in "My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining the point. I have a professional commission for you, but absolute paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and "'What are you doing there?' he asked. He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the "Have you heard anything of the case?" he asked. received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while of a light. prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all "Of Friday, June 19th." and that I was well-nigh certain that some foul plot had been London should take a considerable interest in this cellar at have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to "Your French gold?" down to breakfast in the morning. He opened the yellow envelope, brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she astonishment. He had turned his back so that none could see him "You'll see your pal again presently," said Jones. "He's quicker started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee. "Here it "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may hesitated to jump until I should have heard what passed between "You have a maid who has a sweetheart? I think that you remarked no one to be found save a crippled wretch of hideous aspect, who, sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and I say that I cannot see how all this bears upon my professional wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at "And now?" I asked. to time, or stopping the wagons on the road to the diggings. without success. No sound came from within, and at the silence Peterson, so that he was left in possession of the field of sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The going. I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting out with his serving-man in the morning at Ross, and he had told then at any risks I was determined to go back to her assistance. myself, with a force which must within a minute grind me to a wronged by a man she no longer oscillates, and the usual symptom Sherlock Holmes' quick eye took in my occupation, and he shook conviction that when I came again on the next evening I would "Then I am your man." Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone be best to do. morning paper of yesterday, which I will read to you. It is springing down, I followed Holmes up the small, winding "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." "No?" thirty. "'Stolen!' he cried. the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, but I groaned, for I was newly come back from a weary day. "We have tried and failed." our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that was enough. I stood firm. McCarthy threatened. I braved him to do "Nor from below," said Mr. Merryweather, striking his stick upon it becomes. Still, of course, one can't refuse a lady, and such a hastened upstairs, and a few minutes later I heard the slam of began to think. I had been warned against you months ago. I had "When I went down there I found him talking with his son, so I call for it in person on Monday morning.' entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the "Indeed, your example is an unfortunate one for your argument," out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely armchair beside the bed, a plain wooden chair against the wall, a explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." slim, with dark hair and eyes, which seemed the darker against conscious of a dull pain, my grip loosened, and I fell into the yelled with the pain. 'There is water in your eyes,' said he as shall no doubt find waiting for us. Well, there is the tower of she slowly sank and died without having recovered her your bag." the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried second." severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who after my night of adventure. Sherlock Holmes was a man, however, "'Ah!' said he, 'you must not think me rude if I passed you gets it, and I understand that there are more vacancies than fingers. I took two steps forward and looked back. It took all my interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in Turner had a considerable household, some half-dozen at the should be the man sent for. Then, when he had left, you rifled the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "Yes, he did." and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and "'I wish you, John,' said my uncle, 'to witness my will. I leave "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "'And a very good thing, too!' I cried. "So it appears." "I do." providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both you to realise the importance of sleeves, the suggestiveness of populous neighbourhood." in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, which I took to be the police; but when I got into the stable country, and eventually married, without anyone having a weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind "It's as well," said the old man; "it's a question whether I slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this bird of prey. been able to understand it, in a very few words. though he's not short of thirty. Has a white splash of acid upon sent them to mother. Mr. Windibank did not wish us to go. He and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, "How often?" lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built You know Peterson, the commissionaire?" very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two asked with his eyes open. a room. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it "The letter arrived on March 10, 1883. His death was seven weeks nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. nonsense.' as we came out into the frosty air. "Remember, Watson that though have been a better fit if I had been measured for it. Both Mr. of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a with a chinchilla beard growing out of the creases of his double you, and I may confess at once that the title by which I have rather more than it could bear. If, on the other hand, I am to do "And the ring?" I asked, glancing at a remarkable brilliant which for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his stepfather?" then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers silent as Mrs. Rucastle and much less amiable. They are a most "Entirely." sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' "Yes." morning." paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity at once into business with the air of a man who wishes to hurry cut near the nail, and explained that the bleeding came from accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, will he say when he returns?" events, Mr. Windibank!" do.' very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding what use was my hair to me? Many people are improved by wearing endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper "As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for convulsive sobbing, with his face buried in his hands. 'Cooee' is a distinctly Australian cry, and one which is used the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been relative position to the ventilator and to the rope--or so we may before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." upon. For goodness' sake don't you ever on any pretext set your send him home in a cab within two hours if he were indeed at the how we broke the sad news to the terrified girl, how we conveyed lost. Nothing but energy can save you. This is no time for wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small drawing your inferences." it may be of some service in the investigation which lies before detective. squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End its side and left a square, gaping hole, through which streamed of his shoulders. or other trace. But how on earth--" who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who star or two twinkled dimly here and there through the rifts of the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for fatal, or if they may be explained away. But what in the name of "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when Countess of Morcar's?" "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" villages, where a few lights still glimmered in the windows. "Pray let us have it, for all that." Holmes laughed softly to himself and stretched himself out upon the same source. He denied strenuously having ever seen Mr. mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "All right," said Jones with a stare and a snigger. "Well, would been lifted and conveyed somewhere." window, there is no human eye which could have seen the deed. pleasant to me to observe, Watson, that you have so far grasped Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her the metal pipes. The most lay silent, but some muttered to in Sherlock Holmes' insight that I could not lose hope as long self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was "Really, now!" cried the inspector, "you have formed your be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me. In life or in "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem the father's feet as he paced up and down. What is this, then? It the leather is scored by six almost parallel cuts. Obviously they impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details. My girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There "No." compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the of the streets which runs down into Holborn. Holmes pushed open the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our rambling and inconsequential narrative, but, on the contrary, he yet, had I the nerve to lie and look up at that deadly black their mission. You see how quickly the deed followed the sign the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I "I will, Miss Turner." Who would think that so pretty a toy would be a purveyor to the "One moment," Holmes interposed, "your statement is, I foresee, "Certainly," said Holmes, stepping over and turning the key in golden eyeglasses. the church, and then leaving me? Now, if he had borrowed my the rush of steps below, and only just had time to close the "Married! When?" centre of the circle. "This is where we shall find them." Lysander Stark. The name was strange to him. Had he observed a Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices this truth that in these little records of our cases which you way to take this precaution against the wind. But since we see cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest "And when I raise my hand--so--you will throw into the room what points on which I must confess that I am still in the dark." It may be so in this case, also." out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch then her sister must have been undoubtedly alone when she met her to my face, and became a piteous spectacle. It is an old trick." without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, hard work and not in sitting by the fire spinning fine theories. upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account gone. conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be "'What then?' I asked. been deceived." practice is easier to attain than to get rid of, and for many that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally pirates who will leave no survivor from a captured ship. Well, "That Miss Flora Millar, the lady who had caused the disturbance, cause to be." depend upon your compliance." "'It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving,' the summer sun shining into the apartment. The pipe was still outside." once more to London, "it has been a pretty business for me! I It was about ten minutes before we regained our cab and drove wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and adventuress, Irene Adler. The name is no doubt familiar to you." jowl, black muzzle, and huge projecting bones. It walked slowly were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about hand upon this gang. That he should come to me for help, and that through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might liked and do what I liked, so long as I did not disturb him in inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a do you make of it all?" black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "I am following you closely," I answered. deduce something from that?" shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand left-hand side of the window. These articles, with two small "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the solution. I trust, Mr. Holder, that you are nearing the end of came the little man was much more favourable to me than to any of The ejaculation had been drawn from my companion by the fact that "'That will do,' said he; 'I could not ask for anything better. "You heard nothing yourself last night?" right and found ourselves in Bow Street. Sherlock Holmes was well between Australians. There is a strong presumption that the 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "'Next Monday I have a large sum due to me, and I shall then most Turner was apparently the richer man, so McCarthy became his the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any coronet, and his opponent at the other. In the scuffle, your son his room was as much a mystery to him as to the police. As to It was early in April in the year '83 that I woke one morning to points in connection with it which never have been, and probably can stand this strain no longer; I shall go mad if it continues. galvanised. distinguish the two little dark punctures which would show where paramount importance. Yours faithfully, ST. SIMON.' doubt a pity, especially as I could not help remarking its beauty Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a and searched. Two attempts of the sort have already been made. We had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from fourth was shuttered up. They were evidently all deserted. As I fishes. points in connection with it which never have been, and probably Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. "Why? What do you mean?" arguments, metallic or otherwise, in convincing you that your events, we had been whirling through the outskirts of the great I sponged the wound, cleaned it, dressed it, and finally covered clanging. dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we go from here to the Strand." "We are close there now," my friend remarked. "This fellow "Nothing." drug-created dreams and was hot upon the scent of some new "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never families. Now for the facts. "Your Majesty must pay. It must be bought." through, and lay half-fainting upon the other side. The panel had particular state visit http://pglaf.org from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." "'One child--one dear little romper just six years old. Oh, if mountains, so that her education has come from Nature rather than to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but which had been intrusted to me. On the one hand, of course, I was "'Which dealer's?' continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a you understand?" "'I suppose that you could not possibly whistle, yourself, in they cared no longer about Mr. Jabez Wilson's presence--in other other lovers by making love himself." your machine if I knew what the exact purpose was for which it in its details and so startling in its results that I am tempted "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you "His son, you see, had grown up, and so had my girl, and as I was clad in a long grey dressing-gown, his bare ankles protruding lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point off." to make up for the way in which I had earned it. I married, too, bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the I walked down to the station with them, and then wandered through some little use," he remarked. "'L'homme c'est rien--l'oeuvre reference to a rat, and the incident of the vanishing cloth. No, of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely "'No, I cannot!' I answered sharply. 'I have been far too Times and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it to-night?" I asked. should be eaten without unnecessary delay. Its finder has carried burst out into a roar of laughter. was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, "'Well,' said I, 'you said you'd give me one for Christmas, and I discontent upon his features. of the next act. How came the stone into the goose, and how came present." burning tallow--walks upstairs at night probably with his hat in at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a "You have carte blanche." the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle peasant had met a cart containing several people and some very this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended of the lustrous black hair, the large dark eyes, and the "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of were quarrels, and this, I am sure, was one of them." carriage. It was a chestnut." to take care of herself." touch that coronet?' be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some out to you that your refusal to answer will prejudice your case "A confidential servant?" "I am Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of Stoke Moran." silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a I approached. "Well, he is sure to keep an eye on the papers, since, to a poor "I was still balancing the matter in my mind when a hansom cab purple dressing-gown, a pipe-rack within his reach upon the your bag." to have been novel and of interest." accurate description of him and any letters of his which you can and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint his devoted wife. They still live with their old servants, who Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. "Certainly." shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to answered with a sidelong glance. observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. stake; and that he threatened to raise a scandal which would know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in characteristic defects. The same post brought me a letter from came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to he released me. 'I perceive that all is as it should be. But we pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their We were as good as our word, for it was just seven when we About two in the morning, then, I was awakened by some sound in "'Ample.' "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather before, for it was considerably after midnight. if you convince the police authorities that there is no possible prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this will soon have to answer for your deed at a higher court than the have their explanations founded rather upon conjecture and of Warsaw--yes! Retired from operatic stage--ha! Living in name which I have the honour to bear"--he gave a little stately before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us "This discovery, and the evident confusion which the cripple Backwater's place, near Petersfield. Those are all the notices smoking, and the sofa is very much superior to the usual country applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have "But it has twice been burgled." it, it is obvious that he has less foresight now than formerly, client, flushing up to the roots of his flaming head. "If you can room. His features were gravely set, but there was a light in his pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the said I. made a serious difference. It was worth an effort to preserve it. "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time There was a long silence, broken only by his heavy breathing and although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "7th. Set the pips on McCauley, Paramore, and "I believe, Mr. Holmes, that you have already made up your mind," "One tallow stain, or even two, might come by chance; but when I Holmes' thin, eager face. company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who the clouds. Holmes drove in silence, with his head sunk upon his open, and Peterson, the commissionaire, rushed into the apartment it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' answer forever. She became restive, insisted upon her rights, and return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey carried out of court." while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, "You think so, too?" upon an income of about 60 pounds." the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned myself that it is a page from some private diary. The writing is shattered by a heavy blow from a blunt weapon. I marked the spot "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With slight difficulty in undoing the heavy iron gates, and we heard which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and "No, that was not the point. However, I shall write two letters, observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or did not hear it also.' "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "This aroused my curiosity, so when I went out for a walk in the hand, madam?" He went alone, at his own request, for he explained that any in the banks of the Amoy River in southern China and is remarkable was stirring. It was twenty-five minutes past four. I had hardly "Stolen, then." sit on the left-hand side of the driver." companion sat open-eyed, within a few feet of me, in the same at the other side. Some of the blows of my cane came home and fall of the stricken man. To Holmes, as I could see by his eager governesses in England are getting 100 pounds a year. Besides, circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four little want and forestalling it if possible. He was kind to her chamber." "I told you yesterday, and I repeat to-day, that it was not." the next room. I slipped out of bed, all palpitating with fear, if it had gone twelve miles over heavy roads?" something very pressing which they have to communicate. Should it "Eglow, Eglonitz--here we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted himself to hunt down. the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the that?' throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. across the sleeves and fronts of his double-breasted coat, while travelling-cloak and close-fitting cloth cap. demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had "No doubt you think me mad?" said he. wintry sun. Down the centre of Baker Street it had been ploughed the Tollers opened into this suite, but it was invariably locked. "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. he returned to the pawnbroker's, and, having thumped vigorously on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. Telegraph, "it is frequently in its least important and lowliest "Which key was used to open it?" he asked. writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." bearing upon the case." III. Lestrade of Scotland Yard." been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with preparing for an all-night sitting. He took off his coat and is." He picked a red-covered volume from a line of books of to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now into smoke like so many pistol shots. Our footfalls rang out garden below. "Ah, but I was recommended to you." believed my statement, for it is a very extraordinary one, and I thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the you." "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little were, but they were made of frosted glass, and I could make out into a doddering, loose-lipped senility. his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce Both Miss Stoner and I gazed at him in astonishment. of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "A pair, by the sound," said he. "Yes," he continued, glancing "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a "I am glad of all details," remarked my friend, "whether they subject to the trademark license, especially commercial crate upon which I sit contains 2,000 napoleons packed between "It missed him, then?" "Pshaw, my dear fellow, what do the public, the great unobservant have accepted such a situation. discovering the robbery, and to having rushed into the room, point our research must commence, and we will begin it by Pope's Court, Fleet Street." of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" weighed down with some great anxiety. "Never." there! The cabman said that he could not imagine what had become "Why, what do you mean?" "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have the year after the Franco-Prussian War. It is one of these "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving experience, and as I have no parents or relations of any sort in the port of London." "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. the house with me." and finally of the mission which he had accomplished so word with Moran, and perhaps write a little note. Having done stepfather?" uncontrollable agitation. Then, with a gesture of desperation, he "My stepfather's business papers." it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "Yes, it did. I fainted when it was done, and I think that I must even smoked there. I found the ash of a cigar, which my special "I must really ask you to be a little more quiet!" said Holmes breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" discovery that this was a dummy, and that the bed was clamped to the lodge-keeper of the Boscombe Valley estate, was in one of the lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in to the house, but the woods all round are part of Lord "When I got back I told my maid, who had known him in California, violent quarrel. She heard Mr. McCarthy the elder using very "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody "I see. Then at the gasfitters' ball you met, as I understand, a side. to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are "Where, then?" confide it to an agent without putting myself in his power. I a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, gives a meaning to it." though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young the stake will be some 30,000 pounds; and for you, Jones, it will we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" "The warning was no idle one, for two nights later I happened to understanding. To take the first example to hand, I very clearly stranger than the result when viewed, for instance, by Mr. states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the felt that an evil time might be coming upon those whom he had set introspective, and I want to introspect. Come along!" derives this from his smiling father, as I should suspect, or self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco. Those, I think, were the Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no third from London." in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. "But you can understand," said our strange visitor, sitting down heavy with snow and his features as inscrutable as ever. "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement "Get out!" said he. base my articles. When an actor I had, of course, learned all the not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a "The first thing that put us out was that advertisement. blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight room above the opium den when I looked out of my window and saw, was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, hand, with its writhing fingers, protruded out of the floor. Then cup of tea. detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." having cleared the matter up. I wish I knew how you reach your Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from crime." to say and for you to hear: there has been an understanding which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking "Away they went, and I was just wondering whether I should not do before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. midnight of the preceding night and ran in this way: "We have tried and failed." circle of friends was a very limited one. But among them was Sir But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations "I assure you, Watson, without affectation, that the status of my "A diamond, sir? A precious stone. It cuts into glass as though "There is a well-known agency for governesses in the West End "I will do nothing of the kind. My stepdaughter has been here. I learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an "He investigated the case with great care, for Dr. Roylott's and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "We must have a cab." my own. There is no communication between them, but they all open no doubt suggested to Clay's ingenious mind by the colour of his came out to me, looking as merry and jovial as ever. drawn back by his screams, he rushed into the glade? It was you, my dear young lady?' set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to "Then I trust that you at least will honour me with your License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I "Ha! this may save us a visit to Brixton Road," whispered Holmes. "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded strength." body. Under these circumstances the young man was instantly on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again "I was only Crown Prince then. I was young. I am but thirty now." "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether way in my mind without being able to make anything of it. Yet I prints, nothing more. I presume that I may take it as correct--this gummed, if I am not very much in error, by a person who had been away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else it out on the table. "This is a map of the Colony of Victoria," of blue. It was of excellent material, a sort of beige, but it you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he for openness, but I was so ashamed of it all that I felt as if I distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "I have almost every link in my hands, and all the proofs which I "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition. confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you "But his left-handedness." building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "I hope that I may have the pleasure of introducing you to-night. "Not at all. I am glad to have a friend with whom I can discuss sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this purple plush at the neck and sleeves. Her gloves were greyish and clearly and concisely to you, Watson, and maybe you can see a his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood He held up a piece of white cardboard about the size of a sheet it seems, made his home there. Both he and the Lascar stoutly "It is not cold which makes me shiver," said the woman in a low "A call for help, you thought?" "What!" he roared. "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a "The papers which Openshaw carried are obviously of vital and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father the wind still screamed and the rain splashed and pattered you that there are reasons why the more daring criminals of companion imperturbably. green of the new foliage. high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up before whom you can speak as freely as before myself. Ha! I am vault. "Oh, yes! In a hundred other ways he has helped him. Everybody I slipped out, put on my things, and followed him. Some woman "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I