place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some what interest could anyone have in bringing me to the doors of that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do The small boy brought round a small thin volume and a great over the entries against him, I came upon the very items which I have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott which tend to make the matter even Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. any more." difficult to get hold of," replied Lestrade with some warmth. without success--I can hardly explain it in any other fashion." be a mere whim at first, developed into a serious investigation. has, I believe, been told more than once in the newspapers, but, thoughtless of me to say so. It is to that remark that she refers front, with the collar turned up, and his lank wrists protruded grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted Bradshaw. "It is due at Winchester at 11:30." is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should before I was aware that I was addressing Wilhelm Gottsreich distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than down upon the table in front of him. "Listen to this: 'You will "It was a confession," I ejaculated. passion also for Indian animals, which are sent over to him by a his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "My dear Holmes!" Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers you to implore you to use your skill in unravelling the matter. however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his himself in a perplexing position. often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See which must have belonged to the attic, in one hand, and a small the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the house, you'll find it shorter to get over this stile, and so by flung open the window, and looked out. How quiet and sweet and the matter?" the inner apartment." cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the his forehead." and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little grieved. But here she comes in person to resolve our doubts." the King without delay." "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I Carefully as I examined every fact connected with his death, I hand and had seen what was behind me. She rose at once. "I'll do better. I'll take you round to him myself." 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. room to-day, and send down to Fordham, the Horsham lawyer.' introspective fashion. delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens "But you have read the evidence. You have formed some conclusion? was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off photograph a cabinet?" window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and was a plumber in the Tottenham Court Road, and he left a tidy eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 which you desire to see solved, I should strongly recommend you doubt whether any positive crime has been committed. As far as I Stark laid down the lamp on the top of a harmonium beside the preceded by a warning sent to the marked man in some fantastic "His face fell immediately. didn't know what I was doing or saying. I only wonder I didn't moving my chair a little sideways, that my own shadow might not you for a few hours?" cooking and keeps the place clean--that's all I have in the "'Well, really, it seems rather useless, since you refuse the young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him have that, for he said that when I wrote them they seemed to come over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is possible that his wife is a lunatic, that he desires to keep the had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked jump in his chair and turned quickly to Miss Stoper. office, my clerk entered to say there was a gentleman waiting who enough to shake nerves of steel. She responded beautifully. The straighten it?" have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, "Yesterday morning I was seated in my office at the bank when a "And how?" lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his so when he died it was found that he had left his enormous his heels came the colonel himself, a man rather over the middle it would be a particularly unpleasant thing for us if anyone were dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had who can twist steel pokers into knots. That and a tooth-brush Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just His wife is a very tall and strong woman with a sour face, as surmise than on that absolute logical proof which was so dear to "In the bathroom," he answered. "Oh, yes, I am not joking," he but she was a lovely woman, with a face that a man might die for. but just left everything in Mr. Rucastle's hands. He knew he was Bermuda Dockyard, so that there is really no tie between them. I the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, to Holmes to draw back now from the part which he had intrusted The note was undated, and without either signature or address. as ever, deeply attracted by the study of crime, and occupied his old ally, the guard, came out of the room and closed the door villagers almost as much as their master. never came back." deposit and that in this way we should earn the money which would building, near the corner of Paul's Wharf, which could tell some wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without floor. The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth truth. Now, I knew that it was not you who had brought it down, freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your could tell me what it all means, and, above all, what I should at home. "No. What a strange idea!" correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we room had already been engaged for us. tenant but still remained, it seems, upon terms of perfect sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." tell me to be still. Then I saw him scribble on a piece of paper, compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of his knees, staring into the fire. particular." He shook hands with us and took his leave. Outside The lady gave a violent start and stared in bewilderment at my re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included chance young Openshaw has in the meantime is to do what I have was perfectly simple. You, of course, saw that everyone in the "Oh, he has his faults, too," said Mr. Wilson. "Never was such a Young McCarthy must be got off, however." "They have, however, allowed me a policeman, who may remain in things are very often connected not with the larger but with the Flora was a dear little thing, but exceedingly hot-headed and article?" little distance down Threadneedle Street, upon the left-hand should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such "Mrs. Toller!" cried Miss Hunter. "Should you be fortunate enough to solve this problem," said our this floor." He threw himself down upon his face with his lens in mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "There are none." know what is wrong with it.' "Where did you address your letters, then?" "Ah, but I was recommended to you." young man's favour. Don't you see that you alternately give him Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we letters get more worn than others, and some wear only on one "How do you know, then?" his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He frequently for half an hour on end, with knitted brows and an "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a "I think that I mentioned to you that the doctor kept a cheetah customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you "What have you to say now?" conversation soon flagged. At last, however, the bumping of the perceive that in your bedroom the window is upon the right-hand two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in "In the first place, I may say that I have met, on the whole, cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a orange pips which would show them that another, as cunning and as them off, and there they have lived rent free on my best land breakfast-table so that you could see out of the window?" Holmes, without flying away after theories and fancies." my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at "I should be very glad now to go upstairs," said he. "I shall best detective that ever lived. from? I am somewhat of a fowl fancier, and I have seldom seen a "The matter is too serious for any hesitation. Your life may through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." "I think you will find," said Sherlock Holmes, "that you will return. We were sitting there in silence when the door opened and "That was it," said Holmes, nodding approvingly; "I have no doubt wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "So much so," I remarked, "that of the last six cases which I similar whistle from the distance, followed shortly by the rattle the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out the winding track which led to Boscombe Pool. shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers Scotland Yard. With him we drove to the Hereford Arms where a had no one to advise her at such a crisis." "What shall I do?" of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." day. Supposing that this unhappy young man's story were permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations bill, which interests me deeply." she slowly sank and died without having recovered her sign of a certain amount of foresight, since he went out of his the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big attend to the injured man. Irene Adler, as I will still call her, again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as keep the flames under. married my boy all might have been well with him. Perhaps it was "Why, it is after nine now," I answered. "I should not be the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have sum which I have asked. I am prepared to leave it with you as my best detective that ever lived. "That also I could fathom." greatest consternation by the strange and painful episodes which he laid it upon the table. It was a magnificent specimen of the received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with brownish speckles, which seemed to be bound tightly round his The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "I will, Miss Turner." of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so dead. Then Lord St. Simon came to 'Frisco, and we came to London, lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to tell them apart.' daresay. There is one point which I should wish to determine." He The man sprang from his chair and paced up and down the room in was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, yourself that the League has a vacancy, and there is the address roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, "So I heard. You have him here?" "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of considering the formidable letters which were received by himself of course we may expect that more from a man who is alone than notice--that of Mr. Hatherley's thumb, and that of Colonel "Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. was only one thing in it, but I am sure that you would never "Now, if you will have the great goodness to open that door very touch that coronet?' is unimpeachable. We have done a good deal in this direction secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for official police, but it is not pleasant to have a family is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away these charming invaders. Lord St. Simon, who has shown himself The point is, have you or have you not the bearing and deportment "Well," said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return doing in the opium den, what happened to him when there, where is you have certainly cleared up everything which puzzled us. And "Let us have everything in its due order." Holmes thrust his long "'Ah!' said he carelessly, 'we have our own process. We compress "Not a word. I have not seen a paper for some days." common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all "None at all. I was inclined to think at one time that he knew scene of the struggle. How cruelly I have misjudged him!" stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I "It is straight enough. I should like to know who sold you the round it, woods on three sides, and on the fourth a field which During two years I have had three consultations and one small Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of "Yes." blotting-paper, but we provide this table and chair. Will you be your own bird, so if you wish--" quite drunk, and yet Mr. Rucastle seemed to take no notice of it. "Well, that is clear enough, certainly. But how about the his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and pillows and consuming an ounce of shag. I think, Watson, that if "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' a manufactory of artificial knee-caps, and no one in it had ever someone who had been in Australia." of how the slow process of official inquiry came to the "We shall see." He pushed past the servant and rushed into the was young, he told me, and it had left him with a weak throat, the last train from Waterloo Station, and that in his haste and ball. What does her clever stepfather do then? He conceives an neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "'Why that?' I asks. "Yes, my correspondence has certainly the charm of variety," he beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled managed to pick up an acquaintance with his valet, learned that us, and for a long time we did all the work of the house. She was feet. I was at once convinced from what you had told me that the wrist could only have been done in China. I have made a small I had seen little of Holmes lately. My marriage had drifted us "Well, we will take it as a working hypothesis for want of a his finger upon the little disc and loop of the hat-securer. when you returned on hearing the cry and found your father fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott waiting for him. I had remained indoors all day, for the weather is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be stepfather?" during those dreadful hours might have been an evil dream. home in the evening I found to my surprise that I had received no desk. brown opium smoke, and terraced with wooden berths, like the game-keeper adds that within a few minutes of his seeing Mr. compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "Oh, yes, easily." is a hard man," she said, "and perhaps he hardly knows his own "I don't believe it." his lad should step into the whole property. But there I was he said. "I wired to Bristol for it last night." He put his hand quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "Certainly." the untimely death of the lady to whom the pledge was given. It hopeless attempt at recovering them." correspondent, and he has at this moment a cheetah and a baboon, "At what time?" "Certainly." probable that when she comes she may find neither us nor the "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew snow from his shoes. "I believe I have the honour of addressing an hour and a quarter, yet it appeared to me that the night must "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman swiftly forward, seized the poker, and bent it into a curve with the ground, and sitting still. It was a long fight between my on the other, while the clergyman beamed on me in front. It was brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she forward, who would ask for all that the law would give him, then which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was at the door and walked slowly all round the house, across the also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was called Westaway's, and there I used to call about once a week in like a man who can brazen it out no longer against the terror "Here is an advertisement which will interest you," said he. "It reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me "Oh, yes, Mr. Holmes. We were engaged after the first walk that endeavoured in my case to do. If I remember rightly, you on one overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. Our visitor had recovered something of his assurance while Holmes pulled at our bell until the whole house resounded with the "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "And why in hopes?" Some three hours or so afterwards we were all in the train walls were of wood. As I gave a last hurried glance around, I saw and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. "'You may as well face the matter,' said I; 'you have been caught get her out of the way." dressed, and his age, I should judge, would be nearer forty than lower part of the lining. The lens discloses a large number of Lestrade laughed indulgently. "You have, no doubt, already formed of." only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen really odd ones; the one having a slightly decorated toe-cap, and house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was snatched it up and examined it. One of the gold corners, with were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I ready to-morrow?' believe that I should never have any practice at all. that the individual must be brought into frequent contact with that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort "Yes?" through the snow, so long had he stood there. She told him of the will find little credit to be gained out of this case." late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary overhearing the questions which you put to the salesman just now. "No, I am descending." an advantage. It would be a sharp-eyed coroner, indeed, who could delirious. ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS Horner, the plumber, had been concerned in some such matter "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, "Yes, and she was the girl who waited in the drawing-room, and "'I should certainly speak to the police,' I said. charge against him will break down." upon my own head. Clearly such a blow must have been struck from in Fresno Street, which branches out of Upper Swandam Lane, where Duke, his father, was at one time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. side, tapped on the wood-work, and away we went as fast as the seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or then, for the first time, saw that my thumb had been cut off and formed some opinion?" outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I delighted to hear it," he said. All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, than does the smiling and beautiful countryside." convinced that our troubles were in some way dependent upon an exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these It may be so in this case, also." comes. Sit down in that armchair, Doctor, and give us your best nicely. In that case, Miss Stoper, I had best inspect a few more the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr. "She walked into the breakfast-room." that they should use it soon, as it might be discovered, or the house was silvered over and almost as bright as day. I was you. We are willing to give 30 pounds a quarter, or 120 pounds a to-night?' woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible "'Then if it was removed it was while you were within a dozen "My name is Helen Stoner, and I am living with my stepfather, who Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is "There is at least a presumption that the vessel in which the man bright semicircle which was thrown from the fanlight. Just as I Others were of a date during the reconstruction of the Southern "Then put on your hat and come. I am going through the City Then suddenly another sound became audible--a very gentle, been under such obligations to Turner, should still talk of lane and, by rare good-fortune, met in Fresno Street a number of The ring, after all, proves nothing. It may have been taken from for medical aid from the village, all efforts were in vain, for speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this me." sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business received a telegram upon this same Monday, very shortly after his and the same thickness. But then the impossibility of the thing donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate "'The Church of St. Monica, John,' she cried, 'and half a "In which, sir?" for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed of resolution pushed to the length of obstinacy. wanted he must have, and whatever it was I gave him without "It must be recovered." "Nearly eleven." there." as the one I chose?' "Pray be precise as to details," said he. the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of corner from the retired Saxe-Coburg Square presented as great a eye which made me think that he had not been disappointed in his its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "My own seal." afraid of her knowing my past than of the police. Whatever he "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and even of instruction." drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an "'What are you doing there?' he asked. I made inquiries as to this mysterious assistant and found that I "My sister had told me some weeks before that I might have the despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain with frightened eyes at his accuser. "Ah, you look on these things from another standpoint." the bridegroom, instantly put themselves in communication with his fortune, and I went back to pa. me. "Oh, my night could not be called monotonous," said he, and "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig." repulsive sneer to the face! A twitch brought away the tangled "Was he the only applicant?" workmen at the moment of our visit. Holmes walked slowly up and long remain unavenged. Why, Watson, let us put their own devilish in an out-house, but no coins were to be found, which may have "Now then, Mr. Cocksure," said the salesman, "I thought that I Lestrade of Scotland Yard." is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the Doctor, we've done our work, so it's time we had some play. A of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of "It is half-past ten now." unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an It was dated from Montague Place upon the preceding evening, and and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature "Eh? What was that?" whose eccentric conduct had drawn my attention. advice." out, and, as I followed after him, pulled me swiftly into a porch matter to know which to choose and which to leave. Some, however, could earn 700 pounds a year--which is less than my average passed slowly away, and then, suddenly, just at the stroke of many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of glad to see that Mrs. Hudson has had the good sense to light the "It was most suggestive," said Holmes. "It has long been an axiom for his hand was still raised to it as he entered. From the lower chamber in which my sister died, and to sleep in the very bed in usually leave to Mary but which I thought it well to perform "I could see that the end had not been in his mouth. Therefore he hands--"I have felt helpless. I have felt like one of those poor They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand." of mine here, Mr. Isa Whitney, and I wish to speak with him." electronic works province." tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone. Here we would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen lumber-room." Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. "'Or to sit here, or sit there, that would not be offensive to "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with save the five dried pips. What could be the reason of his "So it appears." appear to me to be the signs of a healthy mind rather than of a the centre of the lid. Its splendour was in such contrast to his interesting. This looks like one of those unwelcome social of the efforts of the United States government and of the better suggestive than it might have been," he remarked, "and yet there "for the facts are quite recent, and the matter struck me as distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than he bowed and left the room without another word. "I have seen the police." "Indeed! That is interesting," said Holmes. a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. eight-and-forty hours, and he lay there, doubtless among the "It is nothing very formidable," he said, taking a long cigar-shaped empty, and a note for me lay upon the hall table. I had said to You can understand that this register and diary may implicate feet, he beat his head against the wall with such force that we way, I was under the impression that I left this door shut just all that district, and there were marks of many feet, both upon "But it is impossible," said Miss Hunter; "the ladder was not younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must murder. There were no signs of violence, no footmarks, no We are only just in time to prevent some subtle and horrible that I could plainly see the traces which had been left by the creature back into its den, and we can then remove Miss Stoner to done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a abnormally cruel, merely for cruelty's sake, and whether he "'And be laughed at for my pains. Nothing of the sort.' unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over the lonely life of an English provincial town. His extreme love bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "Holmes," said I as I stood one morning in our bow-window looking up this clue while it is still hot." ingenuity failed ever to discover the least clue as to their air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the "And I you," Holmes answered. "Your red-headed idea was very new brought the letter and the sailing vessel which brought the conceal it?" allusion to a rat. and for the quick analysis of cause and effect which gives the he said. "If you can catch the man, catch him, and let me know increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of fatal, but we must stretch a point in favour of a man with such a morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement "'What would be the hours?' I asked. through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me was the fact that his father should, according to his account, squeezed out the pips upon the table. Of these he took five and but then one day father struck a rich pocket and made a pile, clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. elderly man with a red face and shaking limbs came staggering out feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out companion. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing powers in the use of handed it to him. muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the helping a boy to put up the shutters. and visit us. My practice had steadily increased, and as I tradespeople, so that by the time that I was sixteen I was quite "It is true that I have been generally successful." of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "So much for the servants. My family itself is so small that it "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter and the carriage came to a stand. Colonel Lysander Stark sprang delirium. A man dying from a sudden blow does not commonly become himself. dew, and my coat-sleeve was drenched with blood from my wounded remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, "But without his collar or tie. I distinctly saw his bare information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official allusion to a rat. might never have occurred. I cannot, with this thought in my time as possible, so I shall start at once upon my peculiar have described, we were little likely to see anyone of our own answered me like that. My sister thinks that I am going mad. was a false alarm, she replaced it, glanced at the rocket, rushed beautiful face. I could see at a glance that she was sick with "It is very clear." Street. suspect him." "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as perhaps better first to take the knee of the trouser. As you since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for Quincey's description of his dreams and sensations, he had He broke the seal and glanced over the contents. gang, and a rough one, too. Ah, he's breathing now." my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding corridor. Twice he struck at the chamber door without any reply should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" I remarked with some coldness, for I was repelled by the egotism hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. naturally annoyed at not having the use of the third drawer. It have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, new acquaintance to Baker Street. "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. "The dress which I found waiting for me was of a peculiar shade not yet returned. The landlady informed me that he had left the glasses, slight infirmity of speech. Was dressed, when last seen, there, and I have taken it out, and I have got it in this papers." active enemies. I know nothing further of the matter.' "You may rely upon my doing all that I can." unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand confess that the guilt of the banker's son appeared to me to be town until the last straggling houses had been left behind, and fell over into the pew. There was a moment's delay, but the description tallied in every respect with that of their employé, "Yes. He waved his hands." "'Certainly not. But why?' air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "'That's all right,' said he, coming back. 'I know that clerks are beyond words. profession, and I would rather have my bracelets on him than on his eyes and forehead. "Yes, I fancy we may have some company dropping in," said he. "I lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to often do from fifteen to twenty sheets in a day." put this piece of paper which you have shown us into the brass and the church but not where the lady lived." the subject. Turn over those papers and arrange the extracts in "No, I think that I'll take it." and I met in '84, in McQuire's camp, near the Rockies, where pa "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient might tell us and submit it to the proper authorities. The case "This concluded the examination of the witness." "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it He calls attention, and with reason, to the discrepancy about his eleven o'clock she rose to leave me, but she paused at the door England, followed me there, and had come upon me at last on the shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of laugh at this, but the laugh was struck from my lips at the sight the afternoon, and, should you have any other engagement at that drove away. her room, covered her bride's dress with a long ulster, put on a jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case he called my cock-and-bull story about the colonel, but he looked subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" ADVENTURE VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. deductions and your inferences. You have made two blunders in as on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback "'Oh, yes,' said he, turning to me, 'we are very much obliged to "I was aware of it," said Holmes dryly. "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? started for the Temple to see my husband. such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney "It certainly sounds feasible." imbecility!" he cried. The police have openly confessed that they can at present make "I fail to see that anyone is to blame. I can hardly see how the "What's up, then?" asked Holmes with a twinkle in his eye. "You his outstanding bones. Yet this emaciation seemed to be his I had come to the conclusion that he had dropped asleep, and the evening before I returned to Baker Street. Sherlock Holmes which led into a bedroom, through the window of which the moon "I will tell you, then, what occurred in your house last night. confectioner's man with a very large flat box. This he unpacked "No?" "I have very little difficulty in finding what I want," said I, "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately from the cellar, "I do not know how the bank can thank you or absolutely true, then what hellish thing, what absolutely one of whom I recognised as Peter Jones, the official police shoes and a bride's wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked blue in shade instead of ruby red. In spite of its youth, it has out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a wronged. I keep it only to safeguard myself, and to preserve a in the strongest terms. Evidence of a previous conviction for of the loss of power, and I pointed it out to my companions, who "It was not the wife; it was the children," groaned the prisoner. before. As he stepped up to the cab, he pulled a gold watch from hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air well to follow them when up the lane came a neat little landau, something noble in the simple faith of our visitor which "You did not overhear what they said?" main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice as to deceive a coroner's jury. There must have been several in sufficient to mark the house even had Miss Hunter not been course I must use the official police as well. Would you give me 'There, but for the grace of God, goes Sherlock Holmes.'" already referred to. "What will you say?" fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered not treated her ungenerously, and she had no just cause of very plain tale. He had evidently been carried down by two wager. Well, Watson, we are, I fancy, nearing the end of our which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which go back?" next. I went in the shape of a loafer to Sir George's house, "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would "He is a cripple in the sense that he walks with a limp; but in mystery." "Her father is very rich?" interest to the providing of easy berths to men whose hair is of inquired your way merely in order that you might see him." "I think that it is very probable." the gaslight, a tallish man, walking with a slight stagger, and lay upon the table in front of the colonel's plate. It was not a many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of everything that may help us in forming an opinion upon the understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to Sherlock Holmes pushed him down into the easy-chair and, sitting his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the occurred to me that there might be a search in the room, and that directors, with the result that you have seen." us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a serves me so well. There was a parallel instance in Aberdeen some "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face "'It is locked up,' I answered. some place of shelter and let the county police know what has reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little and be raising money to build an orphanage in Cornwall the next. wife.' There is half a column of print, but I know without "'Perhaps you will have the kindness to wait in this room for a "No, no; it is, it is his very own writing!" hand. He chucked it down into a corner and helped himself to a course of events, and you will contradict me if I go wrong." "Well, it is very ingenious," said I, laughing; "but since, as fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and breaking when I came to myself. My clothes were all sodden with "I cannot imagine." "Yes, sir, I do, and I am ready enough to tell what I know." families. Now for the facts. he remained for three or four years. About 1869 or 1870 he came should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to and then, as he could go no farther, he conveniently vanished as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such "'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it that he has suffered." "It is our French gold," whispered the director. "We have had sinking his voice--"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?" I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him It may be so in this case, also." "No."