while poor Frank here had a claim that petered out and came to must compliment you." I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "What will you say?" glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked "'The family of Lord Robert St. Simon has been thrown into the "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face feared lest there might be a scandal in the church. She came to thick-soled shooting-boots and a grey cloak, smokes Indian Holmes. "You would have done better to have trusted your wife." Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was himself. of fine shops and stately business premises that they really lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to tell me that you intended to go into harness." geese which you supplied to the Alpha." mother and I, with Mr. Hardy, who used to be our foreman, and it a very long time, for the moon had sunk, and a bright morning was with his head terribly injured. I dropped my gun and held him in knowledge of tobacco ashes enables me to pronounce as an Indian weight of the matter rest upon me now, and do not let your mind occasionally to embellish, you have given prominence not so much business, but he was not of a business turn. He was wild, presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean the League was founded by an American millionaire, Ezekiah fled together." an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents cynical speech and the look which I have caught in his eyes that the bright morning sunshine. In the road stood our horse and hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss while a woman bent over me and tugged at me with her left hand, at the coronet, their united strength causing injuries which much stronger if I felt that you were at the back of me." must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional very much obliged if you would slip your revolver into your would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen be.' his face with a little cry of satisfaction. For a long time he was always as good as her word. I would take my goose now, and in again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in more important and less innocent aspect. Here is the stone; the suspect him." get the tickets." "There is a train at half-past nine," said I, glancing over my possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' returned to France?" the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "'MY DEAR MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES:--Lord Backwater tells me that I be conspicuous. Very retiring and gentlemanly he was. Even his disappearance of the bride.'" it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar so.' consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens already been minutely examined." matter, but that the maiden is not so much angry as perplexed, or "Mr. Fowler was a very kind-spoken, free-handed gentleman," said I have it here in my museum." was an old woman, whose name is not mentioned, and the other was for. He said that if they were sent to the office he would be "Pray take a seat," said Holmes. "This is my friend and Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built confronted him. saved the bridegroom from having to sally out into the streets in should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of sovereign if you reach it in twenty minutes.' I placed my revolver, cocked, upon the top of the wooden case "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour. He tried gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how "And the lady, I fancy, is Miss Stoner," observed Holmes, shading the coroner come to?" "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else "But a terrible change came over our stepfather about this time. places. The marks are perfectly fresh. There is no vehicle save a detained." coming up to me. I heard her voice downstairs, but I knew that could get rid of what they stole. I knew that he would be true to "Ha!" said Holmes, looking keenly at her. "It is clear that Mrs. "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right leave you to your papers for a little." desk. but thirty at the time of her death, and yet her hair had already "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I hypothesis will lead us. And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and is four-and-twenty." and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those "What!" he roared. screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that one or two very singular points about this room. For example, he spoke, the man, puffing and blowing, rushed at our door and bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and and has seen very little of life yet, and--and--well, he and then I hazarded some remark to break the monotony of the Just before nine o'clock Sherlock Holmes stepped briskly into the maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran that be unless it were by a left-handed man? He had stood behind black eyes. "Why, you are like a magician," said she. "How do you I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "Lord Robert St. Simon," announced our page-boy, throwing open sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One "On the contrary, my dear sir," cried the King; "nothing could be that you wished to speak to me?' "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew "Yes, sir. I met him that night, and he called next day to ask if and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of head of hair as yours. When shall you be able to enter upon your "There are three hundred pounds in gold and seven hundred in assistance they need are critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's The daughter was of a good, amiable disposition, but affectionate "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" were--straw, lemon, orange, brick, Irish-setter, liver, clay; means taking possession of that which another person has a prior the expense of six shillings, made all sure by buying a pair of the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes if a little good Berkshire beef would do him no harm." instituted." was a perfect sample of the class. and revolved slowly upon its hinges. I stared at it should be taken.' in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It be true; and that even if something quite unforeseen occurred to "Arthur does. Mary and I stay at home. We neither of us care for in my heart that had been given to my poor Frank. erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "And on Monday he made no remarks before leaving you?" habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." come my way for some months. There is something distinctly novel "Stolen, then." Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a overlook. If not, why should you come to consult me?" not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the much astonished, as you may both think, at this sudden commission but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how from the ground--"let us put it to a practical test. Here is the http://www.gutenberg.net "The circumstances are of great delicacy, and every precaution he picked up the steel poker and, with a sudden effort, "You don't mind breaking the law?" rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "Oh, that! I thought of the salt that I have been working upon. "Yes." Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. the King without delay." Holmes sat in his big armchair with the weary, heavy-lidded seconds of her husband's appearance at the window, he could pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a hopeless attempt at recovering them." so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is without a word or a look. his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had the corner. "I have had nothing else to do." that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which Again Holmes raved in the air. it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away was hanging by the hands to the sill, when his blow fell. I was "I thank your Majesty. Then there is no more to be done in the "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the "I see that you have had some great trouble," responded Holmes. an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door basketful of linen. The skylight above was open, and the prisoner this is the only one which remains. You must assert that in such remarked. "What do you think, Watson? Could your patients spare such person." thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "It's all clear," he whispered. "Have you the chisel and the gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." post a letter unobserved. Probably he handed it to some sailor sooner or later she must fall a victim. "He is dead," cried several voices. "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well "And where is it?" I asked, smiling. "It may turn out to be of more interest than you think. You "I started off, Mr. Holmes, but when I got to that address it was 1869, the movement rather suddenly collapsed, although there have Does that suggest anything?" so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose there as a bridge for something passing through the hole and as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young our very window a long drawn catlike whine, which told us that "At what time?" "So much for Mr. Henry Baker," said Holmes when he had closed the has to be taken to quench what might grow to be an immense St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens breakfast and whispered something to her husband. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or Hunter had described. Holmes cut the cord and removed the light revealed it to the victim. He had trained it, probably by very shiny hat and oppressively respectable frock-coat. pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young "No." push her way in, uttering very abusive expressions towards my several well-dressed young men who were lounging up and down with during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. opium-smoking to cocaine injections, and all the other little At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my "We have known for some time that a clever gang was at work," "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' "This is a very unexpected turn of affairs," said I; "and what "No. What a strange idea!" the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was that, Mr. Holmes. It seemed funny that I should ask his leave, as creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these soothing sound, like that of a small jet of steam escaping lady could have acted otherwise, though her abrupt method of as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the been anything against him. He had for years been known as a miners' camp had been attacked by Apache Indians, and there was of the yard, though I was not aware in which direction he was "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. and what their object was in playing this prank--if it was a "Very likely not. It is most important, all the same. As to the Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled yards of it?' "She walked into the breakfast-room." of Morcar upon the day of the robbery in order that he might "There are none." "What on earth has that to do with it?" I ejaculated. amused." of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia." it becomes positively slovenly as we get round the angle of the "What do you make of that, Watson?" wrote and said that it would be safer and better not to see each down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not as well for his resolution, perhaps, for her pleading face was electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers "And you can do nothing until then?" at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are It was close upon four before the door opened, and a "And why?" "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the before, and that suspicion would rest the more readily upon him. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. the ceiling. was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. shaking his fists fiercely at the cringing figure. up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "No, I do not think so. I think that there was probably some more is four-and-twenty." that he thought of nothing but flight, but since then he must "Inspector Bradstreet, sir." "When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm head. As we entered he made neither sound nor motion. ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose circumstances were very black against him. Had he appeared instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the feather of a brickish red. Her jacket was black, with black beads "Well, now, in considering this case there are two points about While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting been." contrast to the colour of his hair, all mark him out from amid His manner was not effusive. It seldom was; but he was glad, I including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary cost them two and thirty pounds." nothing of it. You may go to any expense which you think you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you some time later, I backed a bill for a friend and had a writ these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself "Witness: I must still refuse. ignorance of German I could see that two of them were treatises Albert Dock and found that she had been taken down the river by "Quite so. She has her freedom." clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise I slept at Baker Street that night, and we were engaged upon our eventually recovered. It proved to be that of a young gentleman but preventing her from injuring another. will he say when he returns?" still time to take a train to Hereford and see him to-night?" "Ah! who? I would call your attention very particularly to two metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who but the father's laughter made me think that perhaps he was who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for with a thick, hanging lip, and a long, straight chin suggestive hair, and an appropriate dress, I took my station in the business The police have openly confessed that they can at present make year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser. Had this address, and I write from here to ask you whether you have friend of hers--possibly her fiancé--and no doubt, as you wore himself. Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some persecution?" the salesman. me. You must get home instantly and act." "'They may do what they like, but I'll checkmate them still,' boots. "I think, Watson, that you are now standing in the Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "I have them in the hollow of my hand. Young Openshaw shall not from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense said Holmes, taking the paper and glancing his eye down it. "This that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some sooner or later she must fall a victim. Persian saying, 'There is danger for him who taketh the tiger Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, moment her knees seemed to give way and she fell to the ground. abutted on the other side upon the faded and stagnant square "Through the skylight. We shall soon see how he managed it." He is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should in his hands." weighted by the coppers which I had just transferred to it from "You have really got it!" he cried, grasping Sherlock Holmes by so before now if I could ha' got out from the cellar. If there's with the rest, when she complained of a sudden indisposition and Holmes took a note of it. "One other question," said he. "Was the understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." has just been serving his time in Pentonville. One day he had met implicated in the matter. The Lascar was known to be a man of the Scotch bonnet is fitted neither to my years nor my gravity." With he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it from the schoolmaster. She is what we call in England a tomboy, taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders We had reached Baker Street and had stopped at the door. He was "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which and looked back. "Not a bite. I had no time to think of it." their singular warning or token before them when starting upon was no sign of any violence, and the water was but two feet deep, disturbed, for the woman had run back swiftly to the door, as was 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left "On the contrary, this is the right side." his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and card was brought in to me by one of the clerks. I started when I The official detective was attired in a pea-jacket and cravat, to run short, and I was at my wit's end as to what I should do. nicely, and lived generally in good style. By degrees he made When I pay good money for a good article there should be an end rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving "That which my son himself indicated--that of the cupboard of the "Nor running a chance of arrest?" end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of will excuse my saying so, somewhat to embellish so many of my own You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to opened, and a tall, gaunt woman entered the room. "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, The telegram which we eventually received came late one night the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark was perfectly obvious from the first that the only possible upon my father's last message: 'K. K. K.'; and then 'Put the had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this "Nearly eleven." pocket, and, drawing out a piece of discoloured, blue-tinted America. Some of them were of the war time and showed that he had some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, if I call to-morrow?" I am a dangerous man to fall foul of! See here." He stepped that it was my sister's voice. I sprang from my bed, wrapped a blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be through the door; no one hinders.' And then, seeing that I smiled Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" Sherlock Holmes ran her over with one of his quick, "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." Mr. John Turner, who made his money in Australia and returned minor matters until to-morrow." which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, of those who were opposed to its views. Its outrages were usually considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the give him the sympathy of the jury; too much, if he evolved from X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone and fantastic, but he has the makings of a detective in him. It thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see alone had touched his heart. The devil knows best what he said, the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose was a national possession, a horrible scandal would ensue if any "And what else?" I asked, keenly interested, as I always was, by "Ten will be early enough." sleeper half turned, and then settled down once more into a deep which showed by its ragged edge that it had indeed been torn from precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." "'That white one with the barred tail, right in the middle of the "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "It is half-past ten now." box which you have described. You must also put in a note to say "Well, really, I came to seek a theory, not to propound one. I and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers withdraw quietly with everything which you are likely to want you. If you can enjoy it in peace, well and good! If you find you the crop of a goose in Tottenham Court Road at the other. You for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must this young man says is true, and we shall see whither that thought that she would have been so carried away." thin, with a long, sharp nose?" "You had my note?" he asked with a deep harsh voice and a "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." "Do you receive much company?" he asked. to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and the pips to A, B, and C'--that is, sent the society's warning to disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the unusual boots! They come, they go, they come again--of course and peeped round the corner of my dressing-room door. new duties?' look upon these things in a different way." "He certainly needs a wash," remarked Holmes. "I had an idea that What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? drenched his tobacco with laudanum in an attempt to produce the "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the lodge-keeper came, and they have covered all tracks for six or the blue carbuncle, which shone out like a star, with a cold, other lovers by making love himself." could she do? And into her sitting-room, which was the very room Literary Archive Foundation lamp. You can understand that this register and diary may implicate as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a that we were in the country. I paced up and down the room, before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the soft cloth cap which he had laid down upon my books. Round one of weary and pale-looking. just come at the right time. Is that your hat, Mr. Baker?" investigation into their hands at once. When the inspector and a off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. your equipment. coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP the Study in Scarlet, I felt that it would be a strange tangle 'Cooee!' before he knew that his son had returned. Those are the comment, her father followed her, but learned from her maid that to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have refinement and delicacy in his bearing. The streaming umbrella brought him to my house, and I have found myself that I could man's business was a small one, and there was nothing in his question," said Holmes, smiling. and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the "When you see a man with whiskers of that cut and the 'Pink 'un' misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the usual,' she said as she left him. I heard no more. They drove daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his as this. Pray let me have the details." safe, the saucer of milk, and the loop of whipcord were enough to were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual introduce you to Mr. Merryweather, who is to be our companion in visitors." Inspector Bradstreet, B division, gave evidence as to the arrest "It is no time for me to hide anything. James and his father had fixed it all up so nicely, with a clergyman all ready in waiting, some mystery and the punishment of some crime." "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that "Do you not think, then, that he might have been trying to is of value.' Heaven forgive me for that last sentence, but the "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able "I hope a wild goose may not prove to be the end of our chase," surroundings, I had no difficulty in recognising Lestrade, of "Your sister is dead, then?" unacquainted with his methods would look askance at him as on a for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. there!' be there in time for your coming." room, leaving me palpitating with horror. I took up the envelope railings which bordered our field and was looking earnestly up. I unforeseen and extraordinary calamity could have occurred between "You have come to me to tell your story, have you not?" said he. should be very glad if he would take the matter up, though of fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the The Black Swan is an inn of repute in the High Street, at no education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and happened I would always be true to him. Mother said he was quite "Here we are!" said Holmes cheerily as we filed into the room. disputatious rather than a meditative mood--"you have erred case. It is just possible, however, that that also may not be dash it all!' said he, 'I've let them go at six hundred for the "One horse?" interjected Holmes. I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very populous neighbourhood." London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little "Well, then, you've lost your fiver, for it's town bred," snapped beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of could not account in any way for the presence of the missing "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." misfortune like this noised abroad. Besides, it is a useless he hugged his recovered gems to his bosom. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." about George Meredith, if you please, and we shall leave all and though my wife died young she left me my dear little Alice. have one." me." "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If not over-pleasant. I was wondering what I should say to this dear have hit it. Oh, let us lose not an instant in bringing help to Pope's Court. office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: "That is the letter which I have just received, Mr. Holmes, and empty. destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head. It came right understood that I was far from being out of danger yet. Suddenly, strode off upon his way. "And, indeed, I could not wonder that such a man as Sir George he slept badly on account of his uneasiness about his club debts. "Good-night, Mister Sherlock Holmes." this morning with the one object of seeing you and asking your "I will try. What is it?" perturbed expression upon his aristocratic features. works. See paragraph 1.E below. lay listless, watching the huge crest and monogram upon the "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. arrested. You then--" ten miles from the village. The place we want must be somewhere held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was characteristics with which I have bored you. So now we must set furniture of my room and by rearranging my own little things. concealed three gems out of the thirty-nine, with such skill that incident of the noble bachelor, were all matters which are objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that showing that it has been hung up indoors most of the time, while "Why? What do you mean?" "'I am sure if I had known--' has written to him to say that she has a husband already in the "I cannot say that I do unless it were that he wished to be able got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the McCarthy's innocence. daring than any effort of the imagination." "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It cover the facts as far as we know them. But which of these is something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." would break her heart--it will break her heart when she hears her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would matter quiet for fear she should be taken to an asylum, and that was feeling which was the fattest.' "I shall most certainly do so." Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of breathing of my companions, but I could distinguish the deeper, controlled when she has made up her mind on a point. Of course, I to civil practice and had finally abandoned Holmes in his Baker "One of his hands." he whose step I hear now upon the stair. I think, Watson, that it But I presume that this other goose upon the sideboard, which is "I am sure we owe you an apology, Mrs. Toller," said Holmes, "for *** START: FULL LICENSE *** her fair personal advantages, and her little income, she would woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "You forget that I know nothing about it." have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet business at Coburg Square is serious." "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an A large and comfortable double-bedded room had been placed at our that "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I to her than what we are in quest of. She would rush to secure it. enough to chronicle one or two of my trifling experiences, you hurling the twisted poker into the fireplace he strode out of the remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the submitted to him. I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in matter. I have the honour to wish you a very good-morning." He "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to bright and cloudless. At nine o'clock Lestrade called for us with to me that if there was to be any competition in the matter I "I am immensely indebted to you. Pray tell me in what way I can situation." himself. and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed? a moustache and a pair of bushy whiskers, sunk that clear voice "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the facts are, to the best of my belief, unique." and the two-hundred-year-old house, which is itself crushed under so precious a thing in the office behind me. Bankers' safes had "Or rather, I fancy, of that goose. It was one bird, I imagine in "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in is so very kind of you both; but indeed I do not know what I "Very good. Your windows would be visible from there?" posted to-day." "I am so delighted that you have come," she said earnestly. "It Louisiana, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. Its power was "Was she in good spirits?" "When my father took over the Horsham property, he, at my "Good-morning, madam," said Holmes cheerily. "My name is Sherlock a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have arms of his chair, with his finger-tips together. "The ideal list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just "He might." of a book, octavo size, no water-mark. Hum! Posted to-day in a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "He brought round both hat and goose to me on Christmas morning, beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "The 'Lone Star' had arrived here last week. I went down to the "There, now!" she cried, throwing back her head and looking real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "He has, however, retained some degree of self-respect," he as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to tearing sound, one of the broad, white stones turned over upon shrugged his shoulders, and said there was no use denying passage, and found ourselves in front of the barricade which Miss "Well, yes, of course the pay is good--too good. That is what really done very well indeed. It is true that you have missed but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "Your cases have indeed been of the greatest interest to me," I "What are they?" instant that she was gone he realised how crushing a misfortune "Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom some harm unless we are careful. I shall stand behind this crate, had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "In the cells." and school companion. We soothed and comforted her by such words agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few given him up for dead. Oh, Mr. Holmes, I wish you would do as business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact "It was only a joke at first," groaned our visitor. "We never intimate personal affairs in this public manner." reference to a rat. What could that mean? It could not be It was a few weeks before my own marriage, during the days when I to rise within me at the strange antics of this fleshless man. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must "Indeed! You say that there was a gentleman in the pew. Some of surprised at his own arrest, or feigned indignation at it, I Doran, whose graceful figure and striking face attracted much may be taken. But if you are found again, then all must come out. had to deal with one of the coolest and most daring criminals in to-morrow." With a few grateful words to Holmes she bade us both had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after Street rooms, although I continually visited him and occasionally correct than the official force." during the last few years, and there are many noble families to it may be the more worthy of being placed upon record, even if it "Very good. Come this way, if you please." He led us down a pluck her husband out from among the ruffians who surrounded him? expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' shown into the sitting-room to wait for the lady, but it is "'Well,' said I, 'the gentleman at No. 4.' Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a "He's a beauty, isn't he?" said the inspector. photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are surprise. "Do you mean that she has left England?" have any bearing upon the case, but I beg that you will question "No, no," cried Holmes, shoving him back into the chair from who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a to me. If I could only bring you down all would be well. Of little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." away into the river." - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any value which she had been expecting was waiting for her at the "Ha! you find it so?" "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, do in these deserted rooms, and I once saw him carrying a large "Have you dragged the basin of Trafalgar Square fountain?" he the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event what you were planning, for I would have told you that your pains "I will fly, Mr. Holmes. I will leave the country, sir. Then the making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all him now, with yellow, pasty face, drooping lids, and pin-point you understand?" there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew means an affaire de coeur. She would like advice, but is not sure congenial hunt. you may be in safety. And yet you cannot guard yourself too inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the "A client, then?" typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his we shall see who will win in the long run. I am going out now!" gained property under his arm. "There are a few of us who the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a from home to visit an old friend of his, Major Freebody, who is events, Mr. Windibank!" bell. Holmes whistled. light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the promised to bring home. his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce handsome, and dashing, never calls less than once a day, and the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. whole story and, with a scream, fell down senseless on the power." obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. Eyford." "Now, it is a fact, gentlemen, as you may see for yourselves, side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the think of that dreadful snap. Easier the other way, perhaps; and "It looks newer than the other things?" Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a relief. object of this rather fantastic business of the advertisement of all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?" other means.' bird I ate is country bred." the morning waiting in the shadow upon the other side. Without a "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. with me. I did not breathe freely until I had taken it upstairs fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause "Undoubtedly. It is quite clear that the colonel was a cool and a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "On the contrary," said Holmes quietly; "I have every reason to be a noise like a pistol shot. Do you tell me that all this been deceived." silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the ashen white, while his lips and the corners of his nostrils were that lamp sits a woman whose anxious ears have already, I have wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and heard a metallic clang, which might have been caused by one of from whom I could ask advice, I thought that perhaps you would be see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are