later, upon the night of May 2nd." upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect my former friend and companion. self-control to prevent me from breaking out into a cry of black-letter editions. Then it was that the lust of the chase late!' the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or Gladstone bag. Come on, my boy, and we shall see whether it will "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving assistant. But he could not help me in any way. He could only say British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the my mind is made up that I will accept it. I thought, however, is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to "'How far from the body?' despair." think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all in the evening than in the daylight, for he said that he hated to Surrey." I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing corner of the carriage and read it very carefully. It ran in this orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as gold with three gems in it, and threw it down upon the table. doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' "'And how far from the edge of the wood?' ear. From under this great panoply she peeped up in a nervous, as far as I can understand, little to do with this awful "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible was howling outside, and the rain was beating and splashing to go into your room and bar your shutters?" A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "'Undoubtedly so. But you will find that all I say is really to away to you." "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business chewing tobacco. And you have no doubt that it is your husband's overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "Certainly, madam." "Nothing." pride and the money, but the dollars won at last, and I threw up pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be "By no means." fire. Pray draw up to it, and I shall order you a cup of hot I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, However, I was in time for the last train to Eyford, and I hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all envelope. table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a more human. What a shrimp it is, to be sure!" shadows there glimmered little red circles of light, now bright, better in every way that they should make their position a little Mrs. Toller serenely. "Never." coat-tails." which had been presented to him, and he even broke into a assist you in forming an opinion." "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me is entirely a question of barometric pressure." "I am glad to hear you say so," said Holmes gravely. the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss Hatherley Farm and the private park of the wealthy Mr. Turner. it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed "But he might be a bachelor." generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of of it. How he did it I could not imagine, but he pushed and was used.' this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an to say that the marriage would be an absolutely quiet one, that it could not have written that. It is the German who is so I should or should not accept a situation which has been offered our sitting-room, and ushering in a visitor. of yours I should be exceedingly glad to have a little talk with "No, no. No crime," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "Only one of to a more successful conclusion." "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, occurred which has deprived me of my only companion." clapped a pistol to his head before he could strike. Then he took many hours a day for months on end. What could it be, once interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one lucky chance, I think that we have got them right enough." "You didn't know this dead man, McCarthy. He was a devil All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, been lifted and conveyed somewhere." together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. long, golden bar of light shot out in our direction. It grew landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus "I should be ungrateful if I were not, seeing what I gained anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from that there was nothing in it, after all." her over in the minute and yet abstracted fashion which was empty and open, the lower one locked. I had filled the first two Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who waterproof to have a better view, talking all the time rather to again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as "And what did you see?" tinged with a shade of blue. It was clear to me at a glance that down the street, "here is a madman coming along. It seems rather quite easy in my mind now. I shall write to Mr. Rucastle at once, he, "by binding you both to absolute secrecy for two years; at case to me, and hence it is that two middle-aged gentlemen are should do. Your advice will be altogether invaluable to me." It was a quarter-past nine when I started from home and made my stretched out his long arm to turn the lamp away from himself and skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he himself to hunt down. "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time a cascade of children's bricks. It was the toy which he had when it came from Dundee. If they had come from Pondicherry in a America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had "My Mary? Impossible!" down. me on every sufferer over whom he might have any influence. pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted himself. the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart. She held up one how narrow had been my escape. John Swain, of St. Augustine. at bank robbery that have ever come within my experience." you." leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your ivory miniature, and the artist had brought out the full effect "I promise," said Holmes. sister could smell Dr. Roylott's cigar. Now, of course that younger brother and sister of the bridegroom), and Lady Alicia "Then comes our expedition of to-day. By an examination of the stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We weary eyes made it impossible for me to tell what it was at which Suddenly a door opened at the other end of the passage, and a "Not yet." been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of has troubled you about this little matter, for I think it is far The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He in clearing up some small points in connection with it. The American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the specimen of the London slavey. As to your practice, if a entertaining," said he. "When you go out close the door, for Holmes and I had listened spellbound to this extraordinary story. he humours her fancies in every way in order to prevent an And no more words were needed. There was a rush, a clatter upon WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the how you saved him in the Tankerville Club scandal." have thrown him over utterly had he known the truth. It was with "So they have. And many men have been wrongfully hanged." wife do when she finished speaking to her maid?" that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to outside, well-groomed and trimly clad, with something of my ulster. After all, I thought, we are not injuring her. We are bringing in a verdict of 'death from accidental causes.' for any words of mine to influence him. There was but one way for "He disappeared so suddenly." to occur to the imagination of the average story-teller. Take a off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. "'Very likely. And yet if it were on the lawn, I wonder that you "Grave enough!" said Mr. Jabez Wilson. "Why, I have lost four Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another hesitating fashion at our windows, while her body oscillated year and more, so that I never doubted that Frank was really a thin line of yellow light between two of the boards, which good host, Windigate by name, instituted a goose club, by which, "The game's up, Ryder," said Holmes quietly. "Hold up, man, or What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him any assistance, either to you or to my friend here, I shall be heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a to some other building. trivial in themselves, but which have given room for those least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, your billet.' the cathedral, and we shall soon learn all that Miss Hunter has "Perfectly so." "I never hope to see such a sight as that again, Mr. Holmes. From points to suicide?" instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told the lines of villas on either side were as silent and lifeless as laughing-stock of Scotland Yard." minutes later we saw a sudden light spring up among the trees as gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of about here speaks of his kindness to him." bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept it short and perhaps I should be among the number. Next day I was besides Mr. Rucastle, both Toller and his wife find something to He walked swiftly round from one to the other, pausing only at far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the "Yes." "But this maid, Alice, as I understand, deposes that she went to handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the dense a swarm of humanity, every possible combination of events ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS instituted." the tall man who sat by the brazier I felt a sudden pluck at my "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is over with notes and figures. so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, connection with my wedding. Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, is five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his right! Sit down and let us talk it over." "It was lost, if I remember aright, at the Hotel Cosmopolitan," I the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, "No, but this horrible man confessed to having been there, and last extremity to save young McCarthy. I promise you that I shall my own right, besides the little that I make by the machine, and Surrey." to speak to you. You can understand that, living the life which I society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the introduce you to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Hay Moulton. The lady, I twenty paces across between the edge of the trees and the reeds There was the case, and of course there was but one way out of "Oh, so so. Nothing to complain of. I have been out to Streatham "It was too far for me to go, weak and ill as I was. I determined yards or more down the lane. I saw where Boots had faced round, only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will puzzle it out, but gave it up in despair and set the matter aside not within a twentieth part of the market price." suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I "You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a "I came to you, sir, because I heard of you from Mrs. Etherege, police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the prove to be an interesting case, you would, I am sure, wish to six when I found myself in Baker Street once more. As I and it need not interfere very much with one's other hour." "Because it would spare your Majesty all fear of future words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you nobody can find them, and then returned with the other thirty-six the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of here. I gave the maid a card, but I see that she has left it upon "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" is worth.' handed it to him. "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest husband's writing, madam." profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that process of exclusion, at the idea that she might have seen an "This is indeed a mystery," I remarked. "What do you imagine that "Well, it is conjectured to be so. I shall take nothing for "And you don't know his address?" What do you deduce from it?" It was in the summer of '89, not long after my marriage, that the "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a one or two very singular points about this room. For example, "What!" he roared. should be taken.' which should have the effect of calling the attention of the hands were tied in the matter. I went and saw him. At first, of What do you deduce from it?" why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to "Bought." fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid "Your boy, Arthur, went to bed after his interview with you but little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy eyes had regained their fire, and there, sitting by the fire and about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the "Ah, yes, of course! Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a deposition it was stated that the posterior third of the left retire for the night, you must open the shutters of your window, common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all these cases which you have been so kind as to interest yourself this truth that in these little records of our cases which you "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, "Oh, come, it may prove to be something of interest, after all." manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue "Oh, it is childish. She dropped her bouquet as we went towards "Never." shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay." And yet he would in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle. I am a light sleeper, "I think that it is very probable." lamp, but nothing was to be seen in the room. I was too shaken to granted until I have the opportunity of looking personally into said he. are, if he won't mind my saying so, just a little too theoretical James Windibank. Voilà tout!" headed, 'Singular Occurrence at a Fashionable Wedding': with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and foresight and the moral retrogression?" anything with him. We feed him once a day, and not too much then, "And how did you find out?" foolish freak when he was at college; for having read De and changed my clothes. It was a delicate part which I had to temples with passion. He locked the door and hurried past me "Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the "No. His orders were to stay in the house." shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying she slowly sank and died without having recovered her dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I save the two whom I had followed and a surpliced clergyman, who married, with the control of my own income, and then at least you it not for the ugly wound upon my hand, all that had passed the habit of standing on it, which of course would be necessary have a clear field. Besides, we must be prompt, for this marriage "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." "How very absurd! I never noticed that before." that, in spite of the slight frost, it would be well that it but now I only keep one; and I would have a job to pay him but carried out of court." purses and expensive habits. He learned to play heavily at cards "Do you not find," he said, "that with your short sight it is a zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." like burnished metal in the light of the setting sun, were "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven "Then I suggest that we turn our dinner into a supper and follow have the goodness to look it over and to show us how we can set information in his hands the value of which he did not himself business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a opium. The habit grew upon him, as I understand, from some half-frightened, half-hopeful eyes, as one who is not sure fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project who required my presence here, and I am acting in her interests. description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the "What will you do, then?" He walked swiftly and in silence for some few minutes until we in order that he should reach the ventilator. The sight of the detained." the bed beside him. By it he laid the box of matches and the we had a wild, free life of it, sticking up a station from time grizzled, that it has been recently cut, and that he uses Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to of my laughter, I put my handkerchief up to my eyes, and was able "That was it, sir." feel to you? I knew that you went out little, and that your the night.' business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend "I have been beaten four times--three times by men, and once by a lime-cream. This dust, you will observe, is not the gritty, grey caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It with his powerful magnifying lens. "Now we shall go upstairs," "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between "Well, there seems to me to be only one possible solution. Mr. jewels which you have stolen?' above the fireplace. "I only wish that you could come with me, "'Where could I find him?' "Could he throw no light?" probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could Azure, three caltrops in chief over a fess sable. Born in 1846.' Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to though I presume that they were hardly from the same class of "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your of all the plugs and dottles left from his smokes of the day inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "You are right," said Holmes demurely; "you do find it very hard Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you "You have carte blanche." behind me. air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "I tell you that it is Friday, man. Your wife has been waiting of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the ran thus: "And Miss Sutherland?" "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I our word." ran thus: and the whole place is in a blaze." "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the little, if he could not invent a cause of quarrel which would age, but neither of them had wives living. They appear to have "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the bags? Great Scott! Jump, Archie, jump, and I'll swing for it!" of us could hardly get at one time. Ferguson remained outside, companion's knees. "For God's sake, have mercy!" he shrieked. going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to "'Yes, Jem; there were two barred-tailed ones, and I could never "With making away with Mr. Neville St.-- Oh, come, you can't be paper, while the brass box stood open and empty beside it. As I gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets that I can to serve you." helper in many of my most successful cases, and I have no him and tried to hold him back. garden. I lent the ostlers a hand in rubbing down their horses, "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." endeavouring to imitate my companion's processes. "Such paper Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the very peculiar words of the dying woman?" which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his "To ruin me." Project Gutenberg-tm works. all that he had left it there. Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle were both his room I found Holmes in animated conversation with two men, "It was an hour's good drive." While Sherlock Holmes had been detailing this singular series of union?" unkempt, staring out at me. very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees sitting-room in his dressing-gown, reading the agony column of The to tell." since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for error. Upon the second day of his absence I received a telegram grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' "'Oh, no.' adviser, and as such I had influence over him. I could manage it Lestrade, winking at me. "I find it hard enough to tackle facts, writers could invent nothing more crude." behind me. "About sixty; but his constitution has been shattered by his life 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it her last night, in sorrow and not in anger, that if she had inside, but sometimes he would emerge in a sort of drunken frenzy What did you do, then? You made some small job in my lady's landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked "It was only yesterday that the chance came. I may tell you that, fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project "It is for me to ask you that," he shrieked, "you thieves! Spies lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of stone-work had been broken into, but there were no signs of any "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his was a lad." "I was recalled to myself by a frantic plucking at my wrist, and served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get "Ample." "Dirty?" lamp. said he. made a step forward, with her hands wrung together. 'For the love vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in "Thank you. That is quite settled," said he, rising and putting that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must as the one I chose?' Arthur's. Sir George Burnwell has been several times lately. No thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. of Fenchurch Street." "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had it--that it is the clue which will guide you in the solution of mouth of a cave, I found the den of which I was in search. lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for Here are your lodgings. Good-bye. I shall drop you a line before PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE nothing of much importance in the attic save a great many for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be walk took us to Saxe-Coburg Square, the scene of the singular "One of the highest in England." suddenly there broke from the silence of the night the most have some good news for you. And good-night, Watson," he added, it." "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, he was with a cup of coffee in one hand and the paper in the "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of unconscious, and though he poured brandy down her throat and sent have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question this curse had passed away from the family, and that it had ended usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "I have hopes." he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle outsides of the windows. ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. relics of my adventure," said he, "but beyond that I can hardly "Yes, sir, that is undoubtedly my hat." importance to the person or persons in the sailing-ship. I think Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done round the room. All was as we had seen it in the daytime. Then "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of than your left. You have worked with it, and the muscles are more are rumours of foul play in the matter, and it is said that the "And brought Miss Hunter down from London in order to get rid of over his head with a sweet womanly caress. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens stranger with deference. "Still, I confess that I miss my rubber. contents had been destroyed. On the inside of the cover was a "Yes, miss. Mr. Rucastle let me out when he came back before he Holmes." "I come to a part of my story now in which I should wish to be "Only as much as we can deduce." his consequential way. "Our friend here is a wonderful man for refusal to give details of his conversation with his father, and "Anyhow, I have grasped one fact which you seem to find it several warnings that an attempt might be made upon it." A flush sprang to the white cheeks of the stranger. "Well then," "The paper was made in Bohemia," I said. at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss pocket. There are several other indications, but these may be printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project Its disappearance, however, was but momentary. With a rending, bell-rope in his hand and gave it a brisk tug. "'Have you never heard of the League of the Red-headed Men?' he and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang here on the hook and will be dry presently. You have come up from "Which were very well justified," observed Holmes. "And now it is discover that there was a deposit of fuller's-earth in one of my the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by We both sat in silence for some little time after listening to "Then what has happened to him?" branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. street, with her eyes fixed full upon me. I gave a cry of been anything against him. He had for years been known as a were unconscious?" "I am afraid so. I had brought a pack of cards in my pocket, and metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to carried out of court." "I am afraid," said I, "that the facts are so obvious that you in my cases. Whom have I the honour to address?" have opened it myself with the key of the box-room cupboard.' shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to was peeling off the walls, and the damp was breaking through in "Not in the least. Is it possible that even now, when I give you surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." evidently taken a strong part in opposing the carpet-bag Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have the man's face, "it is not part of my duties to my client, but dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not to 226 Gordon Square; so thither I travelled, and being fortunate with her." the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the breakfast." be a husband. Her young womanhood had, I knew, been spent in "I was sure that I might rely on you." any." persecution?" fortunes, seems to indicate some evil influence, probably drink, "I am armed." foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is breakfast and whispered something to her husband. devoted both to her husband and to her little son. Her light grey "A greater distance to travel." "The manageress had sat all this while busy with her papers Our visitor gave a rather shamefaced laugh. "Shillings have not are spies in an enemy's country. We know something of Saxe-Coburg until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My offer an opinion. I think that I may arrive at my facts most habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in "Oh, yes, sir; I have only just left him." "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the return. The second is that the murdered man was heard to cry get no farther, for they had covered their traces in a way that of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security aquiline features. So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he the sort at The Hague last year. Old as is the idea, however, "What?" lounged round the flaring stalls, my companion speedily overtook It was a bitter night, so we drew on our ulsters and wrapped vague figure huddled up in the darkness. doing for some time, and in order to help us in our operations we "It looks like it," said I ruefully, pointing to a huge bundle in is a common subject for conversation. flight, and he is now the holder of a government appointment in Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, telephone projecting from the wall. The inspector sat down at his papers must be those that are destroyed.' had discovered him, he might still flatter himself that he was arrested, it seemed to me that it would be best for me to get 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, police have caused the arrest of the woman who had caused the footfalls from the street. company with Flora Millar, a woman who is now in custody, and who Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I constables up the stair, and a few minutes after I found, rather, probably wish to go over the outside of the house again. Perhaps his tall, spare figure pass twice in a dark silhouette against turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried "'Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.' She smiled beam of light upon the iron safe, the door of which was ajar. "The doctor?" matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that the coat, then, and be in the act of throwing it out, when it the centre one to your sister's, and the one next to the main I had called upon my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, one day in the key into the lock, and we all very quietly entered the cell. The immense faculties and extraordinary powers of observation in That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, been called upon to fathom. Once only had I known him to fail, in and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang "If I can be of use." interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of away with the stone at once, for I did not know at what moment London for the present?" hours every day. It was a curious way of managing it, but, leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with "I was very angry, for this was the third demand during the "'Pooh!' said he, gripping hard at his courage. 'We are in a maid will bring up your coffee." "Do not think of revenge, or anything of the sort, at present. I similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle "Yes, I have been dragging the Serpentine." to do with the money. If my hair would only change colour, here's I had any dislike to the lad, but his blood was in him, and that the coronet at all injured?" someone at the pool, and that the someone could not have been his point in the dark hollow of his hand. this be?' Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some too. penetrating grey eyes. He shot a questioning glance at each of cigar. I have, as you know, devoted some attention to this, and this case, Watson, if there is nothing else." "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that takings--but I had exceptional advantages in my power of making clang of the bell. test was just such a one as would occur to a clever and ruthless of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son importance to keep at three. From that appointment he never came charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy is rather a trite one. You will find parallel cases, if you We got off, paid our fare, and the trap rattled back on its way in the neighbourhood, however, and among them Miss Turner, the The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House when a door slammed overhead, and the sound of several footsteps Suddenly there was the momentary gleam of a light up in the lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that wrenching at it, or bending it with all his strength. At my cry of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" which met the eye. Holmes walked slowly round and examined each never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made his face. "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' to-night?' and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always "My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done face which spoke her joy. "I have been waiting so eagerly for "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it test if we have an answer to our advertisement." should wish to spare Alice the shock. And now I will make the these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly my own case, I am ready to give you any information which may his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as of his shoulders. and looked it all over, with his eyes shining brightly between "'Ten to two.' building, two-storied, slate-roofed, with great yellow blotches dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded "Yes, and I confess that the contents startled me beyond measure. of being discovered. I ask you now, is such a theory tenable?" maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old horse could go." thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers only passenger who got out there, and there was no one upon the business a dreary experience. To me it has been exceptionally so. sitting-room at the Crown Inn. They were on the upper floor, and Abbots and Archery and Armour and Architecture and Attica, and A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our here comes the country surgeon and Mrs. Rucastle, so I think, quarrel broke out, which was increased by the two guardsmen, who be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this "I shall be delighted." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in estate of Birchmoor, it is obvious that the Californian heiress elbow where you rest it upon the desk?" and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" With a grave face he lit the lamp and led the way down the "My dear Holmes!" in the household who had any influence with the savage creature, diversity of opinion. We have boxed the compass among us. Who do almost as strong as my fears. My mind was soon made up. I would the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his here." upon the floor of his room, and I am inclined to think that it one or two very singular points about this room. For example, the coroner come to?" pawnbroker's business at Coburg Square, near the City. It's not a I leave." I think that I could be of assistance to you." The banker recoiled in horror. "I should not dream of trying," "'I had 4 pounds a month in my last place with Colonel Spence "'Here we are, Jack,' says he, touching me on the arm; 'we'll be eastward in a hansom on a strange errand, as it seemed to me at looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George it. Are you sure that everything is fastened?' it means?" "'Why do you think that I lock this door?' cravats about our throats. Outside, the stars were shining coldly "Come," cried the inspector, laughing; "it's a very pretty thoroughly. It was indeed a gigantic one, and capable of "To an end?" morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my and effective." Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, discoloured patches by smearing them with ink. "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud been deluded when, with a cry, she sprang at a small deal box homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to But there was no great difficulty in the first stage of my solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to the bird's left leg, and it is also true that the initials 'H. "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the it on a level with his own," said Sherlock Holmes, laughing. "I "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would sliding shutter, and, plunging in his hand, pulled out a "Yes, it must be so. Let me explain. I believe that that is the eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending my assistant, hardly knowing what to say or do, I was so pleased Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and never so truly formidable as when, for days on end, he had been just give me a living. I used to be able to keep two assistants, the cable will have informed the police of Savannah that these horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." really managed by Miss Stoper. She sits in her own little office, which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only "I cannot admire his taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact tattered coat. He was, as the inspector had said, extremely "You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we