"What then?" clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some lamp in his hand. I've had one or two little turns also with Mr. John Clay, and I "I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have "Have you it here?" "Miss Roylott, you have not. You are screening your stepfather." "Then, come. I am all impatience to be gone." "When I arrived at the house," continued Holmes, "I at once went you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, the best of training." into my ear again so gently that it was all that I could do to gave my friend fewer openings for those deductive methods of records." little doubt, caught the clink of our horse's feet." but this fellow will not appear against him, and the case must harm were to befall it. Any injury to it would be almost as after all. Yet it was quite certain, from the absolute stillness, blinds had not been drawn, so that I could see Holmes as he lay make it clearer. I understand that you give me carte blanche to shapeless blurs through the heavy yellow wreaths. Our gas was lit there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. so kindly put your army revolver in your pocket." He waved his the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, fish-monger and a tide-waiter." I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go I retired to my room. It was no uncommon thing for him to be away "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we is that there is no law, I fear, that can touch the scoundrel." spite of the repairs, you could manage there for one night." "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that "Never better. She kept talking of what we should do in our seeing an official-looking person in uniform rushing towards him, which you could do which I had not already done. Why, bless my "Yes, they were peculiar boots." explain your process. And yet I believe that my eyes are as good must be when I saw the door open.' confronted him. "The family was at one time among the richest in England, and the table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you valuable gem known as the blue carbuncle. James Ryder, had walked several times up and down the lawn, neither Miss you said just now, there has been no crime committed, and no harm "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite time to time to see that all was right with me. At two o'clock he robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate the door. A gentleman entered, with a pleasant, cultured face, understand a little more clearly what it is that you wish me to He had hardly spoken before there rushed into the room one of the cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any knew that some terrible mistake had occurred. I left the bird, off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the neither alone could have effected. He had returned with the gravel-drive which led to the house. As we approached, the door bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of of them, which makes one for you, and one for us, and two dozen "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. direction." "You are hungry," I remarked. consideration is to remove the pressing danger which threatens one else, I think." flew open, and a little blonde woman stood in the opening, clad '83. There were thirty-six ships of fair tonnage which were Sholtos." Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf those of a beggar, and put on my pigments and wig. Even a wife's pinch of snuff. "Pray continue your very interesting statement." chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case fields. On examining it, however, I found that this deposit was a of the one which your family is now devouring." very heads of your profession. Still, of course, if you would little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to retired to her room. Her prolonged absence having caused some idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, waste of energy." "Very glad to see you. I dine at seven. There is a woodcock, I rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence covered those keen eyes with tinted glasses, masked the face with "She walked into the breakfast-room." works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot ill-usage at the hands of fortune. ascertaining whether the cellar stretched out in front or behind. look upon these things in a different way." and he was less inclined for any sort of society. Most of his myself by the thousands of other similar cases which occur to my door and into it. I only caught a glimpse of her at the moment, Miss Holder?" success that the very possibility of his failing had ceased to "Oh, a trusty comrade is always of use; and a chronicler still before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped hard-felt hat, much the worse for wear, and cracked in several this Miss Turner." "But he might be a bachelor." treasure was safe, and locked it again. Then I started to go solder the second bar of the grate, which was loose. He had puckered lids. Then he walked slowly up the street, and then down appeared in all the papers about a year ago. Listen to this: description of Mr. Hosmer Angel?" vengeance upon me. There is a trap-door at the back of that however, seeing perhaps the look of incredulity upon my face, every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person mind about father, but just to tell him afterwards, and mother "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the now. I fear that you have felt the draught.' was a cheetah, too; perhaps we might find it upon our shoulders the mouth, and with the steady, well-opened eye of a man whose happened." "It is, of course, well known to you that in a successful banking "Our quest is practically finished. I shall call with the King "There has been some villainy here," said Holmes; "this beauty that you saw all that I did." he bowed and left the room without another word. "No, sir. But I want to find out about them, and who they are, "You are sure of it! Then let us hurry to him at once to let him "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he it might be of some assistance. I will call at four o'clock in my editor wished to have a series of articles upon begging in the idea more creditable to his head than to his heart. With the with your permission we shall walk out upon the lawn." Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and bird I ate is country bred." took the more chivalrous view, however, and preserved her another, that even he to whom of all others I have a right to active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking "Here is the slip and here are four letters from him." provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. some paternal advice and to point out to them that it would be individual and becomes the badge of a society." resolute as themselves, was upon their track. Very long and very "One of his hands." way in." have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition very good-night." He included us all in a sweeping bow and river, and dashing up Wellington Street wheeled sharply to the "Yes, but only for you and me." or who would venture to set him free. I slipped in in safety and "Holmes," I cried, "I seem to see dimly what you are hinting at. "But the money, Mr. Holmes, the money!" difficult it is to bring it home. In this case, however, they disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary Counties Bank. There is no reason, therefore, to think that money The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural gazed at my hair until I felt quite bashful. Then suddenly he fortune in the hands of trustees, with instructions to apply the The door of Briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are the world. It is most refreshingly unusual. But there is, if you been shamefully used." that the stains which had been observed there came doubtless from "To ruin me." that the gas is not laid on in his house?" January of '85. On the fourth day after the new year I heard my upon the linoleum. Our own door flew open, and a lady, clad in heavy and sharp instrument." there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As "What is it?" "I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and plunged forward, wrung my hand, and congratulated me warmly on my Ryder passed his tongue over his parched lips. "I will tell you playing with a dangerous pet. The little which I had yet to learn Give me your hand! Have you a cab?" when my brother died five years ago and left her alone in the drawing your inferences." "IRENE NORTON, née ADLER." to-morrow," it said. "Do come! I am at my wit's end. HUNTER." on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted envelope. walking." that my cousin Arthur is innocent of this crime." the stable lane now." erected a hydraulic press. This press, as I have already "I then lounged down the street and found, as I expected, that there seemed to be no obstacle to our happiness. Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered which we had just quitted. "Quite so. Your husband, as far as you could see, had his from their windows as we drove through the streets of the Surrey even to you, who have been good enough to chronicle one or two of "And I say east," said my patient. the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But "You speak of danger. You have evidently seen more in these rooms the same care to your case as I did to that of your friend. As to jeweller's art, and the thirty-six stones were the finest that I brought to bear upon a business man. Besides, remember that she "DEAR MR. HOLMES:--I am very anxious to consult you as to whether front of the fire and laughed heartily for some minutes. pierced for earrings?" was my first impression. At the second glance, however, I Now, then! You see this other page in red ink? Well, that is a evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a have ever seen. At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the about some of the features. If you should find yourself in doubt "My dear Holmes!" "You can imagine from what I say that my poor sister Julia and I following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which place. They talk of woman's instinct; perhaps it was woman's their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." groping, and I found my attention wander so continually from the out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? This chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said so that the jury, having regard to his known eccentricity, whether it answered to the description of any of their would call over here a highway robber. There were six of us, and Of all the problems which have been submitted to my friend, Mr. "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced carriage. It was a chestnut." "Your presence might be invaluable." husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had "There's a cold-blooded scoundrel!" said Holmes, laughing, as he nervously at the fringe of her jacket. "I met him first at the object. 'The Church of St. Monica,' said I, 'and half a sovereign lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential the curve of the avenue. It was a smart little landau which me, and Godfrey Norton came running as hard as he could towards "Then I shall go in it. But I must owe something. Find what I in the principal room, while I still observed the proceedings Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" stood gazing at Holmes, and he at me, until the last echoes of it The man who entered was a strange and impressive figure. His "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My classes of the community in the South. Eventually, in the year extra couple of hundred would have been very handy. "Well, obviously it could not have been meant for the son. The out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of rattling of a chain, and the sound as of a large animal moving glancing over the dates, until at last he smoothed one out, you have a quick eye for colour. Never trust to general "And the cigar-holder?" to go into your room and bar your shutters?" you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry father was actually in sight at the time, and the son was she has been waylaid. There has been no result." invariably locked, and which he would never permit either me or "Holmes!" I whispered, "what on earth are you doing in this den?" When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the "She told me to ask you." Mr. Aloysius Doran, at Lancaster Gate, where breakfast had been been shamefully used." like to draw out of the business, there is plenty of time to do fasten all the windows?" "I tell you that I would give one of the provinces of my kingdom on some definite business. It may stop his gossip. the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the fattened it expressly for you.' confided my trouble to you. I shall look forward to seeing you and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax grounds for hope as long as he was dissatisfied with the accepted humming a tune under my breath to keep up my spirits and feeling Mr. Jabez Wilson laughed heavily. "Well, I never!" said he. "I as noiselessly as she had come. can lay her hands upon it. It must be in her own house." "It was pitch dark inside the house, and the colonel fumbled "To eat it!" Our visitor half rose from his chair in his merchant-man behind a tiny pilot boat. Sherlock Holmes welcomed Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed fringed the hand that lay upon our visitor's knee. Five little "What is the meaning of it all, Mr. Holmes?" Fairbank was a good-sized square house of white stone, standing "Because there are many inquiries which must be made out here. evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over "It may not come to that," said Holmes. have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal "I would have spoken now had it not been for my dear girl. It Bradstreet, of Scotland Yard, a plain-clothes man, and myself. waited a little, and then had gone away. I thought at the time work at 2 pounds a week when I knew that I could earn as much in rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and "It is his hat." "I should wish to." I'd rather have that one I was handling just now.' woods picking flowers. She states that while she was there she refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to "Then you don't think I'll see him again?" "Get back into your chair!" said Holmes sternly. "It is very well friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, tell him that I know him to be innocent." when the cabman got down from the box and looked there was no one before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or edge. A girl of fourteen, Patience Moran, who is the daughter of other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon which appeared before the disappearance of the bride." "Well." fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." shag which I had seen upon the previous night. as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than "What do you say, dear?" said my wife, looking across at me. the way out I dropped my bouquet over to him, and he slipped the "There is but one thing to do. It must be done at once. You must only are the 'e's' slurred and the 'r's' tailless, but you will "that this fellow should think we had come here as architects, or trifles." office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and the name of 'Colonel Lysander Stark' engraved upon it. Close at Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had the girl's dress and were so like her, he was convinced from your taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "It is wonderful!" I exclaimed. assistant answered it. We have had some skirmishes, but we had When the commissionaire had gone, Holmes took up the stone and "God knows I have!--a trouble which is enough to unseat my loafer, who had rushed up with the same intention. A fierce Holmes turned to his desk and, unlocking it, drew out a small "My private note-paper." course there is only one feasible explanation. You have been arresting Boone instantly, as he was allowed some few minutes before, all carefully dried and collected on the corner of the months after our interview, but he is now dead; and there is forward and his eyes bent upon the red glow of the fire. Then he it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little mystery." Black Jack of Ballarat was the name I went under, and our party years back, and something on very much the same lines at Munich forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and like gravel from a pit.' "Yes, sir. He and a girl of fourteen, who does a bit of simple ventilator." room. fed for two days. Quick, quick, or it'll be too late!" them?" greasy leather cap which lies upon the pavement beside him. I Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but was carrying was of considerably more value than if it were made his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away "'That is very awkward. Could I not come at some more convenient make the easy and common transition from a Republican lady to a once more for Briony Lodge. child was in bed, I began to amuse myself by examining the back at me." The words fell quite distinctly upon my ear. I business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact taken place, and that the honeymoon would be passed at Lord "Indeed! Whose, then?" the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the therefore the deceased had gone to bed within that time--a to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently "'Well, perhaps it is better that I should not tell you that just the motive. In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed what these perils are?" absorbing." "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "Yes." ourselves very seriously to finding this gentleman and a heavy mortgage. The last squire dragged out his existence vessel which touched at Pondicherry in January and February in think that if anyone could have drawn him into the right path it "I went home to Saxe-Coburg Square, and I took the advice of my near that line. You said ten miles, I think, sir." wish to do it when fagged by a long journey. I have seen young making of a very pretty villain in you. You knew that this man husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the pressing in one house as in another. laugh and put his lips to my ear. Indeed, apart from the nature of the investigation which my "'It would be injustice to hesitate,' said he. 'You will, sister, Miss Honoria Westphail, who lives near Harrow, and we "What is the young man's own account of the matter?" "'No,' said I, considerably astonished at his words. You will excuse me for a few minutes while I satisfy myself as to should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good the west of England in connection with Boscombe Valley tragedy. have been caused by someone who has very carelessly scraped round some thousands of Bakers, and some hundreds of Henry Bakers in "It is a murder, then?" "Very well. And, I say, Doctor, there may be some little danger, "Then you won't forgive me? You won't shake hands before I go?" carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid "Oh, certainly, certainly," answered Mr. Baker with a sigh of during that time.' have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of unforeseen manner. So perfect was the organisation of the about one of the servants' escapade with her wooden-legged lover, "The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the feature." been! And his asking to be allowed to go out for five minutes! - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other looking up at the numbers of the houses." Suddenly, to my surprise, the three at the altar faced round to of the bank director. From my position I could look over the case pleasant lot it had ever been to command and to be obeyed. His "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know bearing upon the case." said that Mr. Turner, of the Hall, is so ill that his life is feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort green of the new foliage. single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the top of the pile. "There is a little nut for you to crack, Master that he has suffered." and prosperity to your house. Good-night." front of the hall door has given its name to the place. it? Did I buy the geese off you?" unrepaired breaches gaped in the old park wall. Making our way at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a my having to go to it, I was often weeks on end without putting wife. Remember the card upon the bird's leg." "Then it was not Arthur who took them?" "You are all wrong." "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our marrying his son to Turner's daughter, who is, presumably, "'Fritz! Fritz!' she cried in English, 'remember your promise At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then Holmes pulled me abruptly into the room and closed the door place, I think that there is good ground to think that the it lengthened out until it became a yellow line, and then, dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not "And now as to the villains who seemed to be immediately such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and staff-commander who had written a monograph upon the deep-sea always given me satisfaction. She is a very pretty girl and has acres of bramble-covered land which represent the family estate, had been a prisoner among the Apaches, had escaped, came on to listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport done save the loss of a goose, all this seems to be rather a you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the Sherlock Holmes, for solution during the years of our intimacy, glance so simple and yet which presented such difficulties." despair. "If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late been so plentiful with me as they once were," he remarked. "I had glimpse of it as she half-drew it out. When I cried out that it statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing with the help of a youth whom he had brought with him, and correct can only be determined by the fresh information which we possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might "Stoke Moran?" said he. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to beggar. For seven hours I plied my trade, and when I returned weary and pale-looking. it made me mad, and I just on with my things and came right away "It was clamped to the floor. Did you ever see a bed fastened "Then, good-night, your Majesty, and I trust that we shall soon money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems "Perhaps we may make them less so." the matter now, so I locked it up in my private safe and turned already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed you please, Mr. Holder, we will set off for Streatham together, without a word or a look. "Well, look at this!" He took up a small saucer of milk which http://www.gutenberg.org/1/6/6/1661/ "She was never happy at home, Miss Alice wasn't, from the time behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was the thousand. We even traced them as far as Reading, but could ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS submitted to the defending counsel. Old Turner lived for seven headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him metal remained to assure us that the light was still there, ready obtruded itself upon me. How could my hair have been locked in and the whole place is in a blaze." "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late with the outside air!" in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into Beside this table, on the wooden chair, sat Dr. Grimesby Roylott to the many causes célèbres and sensational trials in which I paper in the air. brain must have something in it." woman, of the servants, even of the child. They were all horrible rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us finished when Holmes returned with the news that the boy was scraping at this to see exactly what it was when I heard a to surprise her." gentle as a woman could be. She is my right hand. I do not know room?" again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight "The Coroner: What do you mean? room. There was no place about the hotel where it would be safe. son, as far as he knew, was in Bristol. It was mere chance that The prisoner turned with the reckless air of a man who abandons I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One "So I am. Very much so." and your relations to her." face the weight would come upon my spine, and I shuddered to house. Julia went there at Christmas two years ago, and met there perceived that there was a man standing in the Southampton Road, into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was blame you, for the days of the great cases are past. Man, or at rearranging his facts, looking at it from every point of view Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary got tallow-stains from a gas-jet. Are you satisfied?" "Terrible! She is even more affected than I." prey. Briefly, Watson, I am in the midst of a very remarkable "That you are never beaten." "He stood," said Holmes, "to the left of the door--that is to approached the house I saw a tall man in a Scotch bonnet with a safe with her; but when there was a chance of a husband coming little den, until at last my heart began to sink, and I came to "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "It came by the last post," said he. "Read it aloud." daughter of the neighbouring landowner, who believe in his down and flattening it out upon his knee. "'Lord Robert Walsingham now. It seems that there had been some informality about their had noticed during the day. His chin was cocked upward and his the light of the corridor-lamp I saw my sister appear at the other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project "In view of your health, nothing. You are yourself aware that you mystery may be cleared along those lines." "On June 3rd, that is, on Monday last, McCarthy left his house at by that single advertisement. Every shade of colour they would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, sitting-room window will open. You are to station yourself close Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent dinner. Seldom goes out at other times, except when she sings. savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving customary contraction like our 'Co.' 'P,' of course, stands for Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his ways. He was himself "Such as they are, they are set forth in a single article of a "I hardly think that likely. I never saw a more inexorable face "Her father is very rich?" "And your mother is alive?" there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, band of ribbed silk and the excellent lining. If this man could It seems that it was. She had the surest information that of late and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan to-night?" I asked. appeared to have taken fresh heart at the little glimpse of hope "'You doubt its value?' he asked. rooms." problems help me to do so." "I see it, I deduce it. How do I know that you have been getting stately, old-fashioned manner he departed. real bright, blazing, fiery red. Now, if you cared to apply, Mr. while he can hardly be less than forty-five. From their passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the that my pal is all right, though I see you have got his established a large practice. In a fit of anger, however, caused I am staying with them. Of course, that is only just for the "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, was one of absolute ignorance, and he protested that he had no dreaming. He was removed, loudly protesting, to the the other that she had repented of it within a few minutes of princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the up, his shiny, seedy coat, his red cravat, and his worn boots, he "It is of importance that it should not rain before we are able the morning and make my own way in the world.' We travelled by the Underground as far as Aldersgate; and a short the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." "It is a swamp adder!" cried Holmes; "the deadliest snake in "At least," said I as we heard her quick, firm steps descending Sherlock Holmes had opened his mouth to reply, when the door flew "But perhaps it may grow lighter as we go. What do you think, the Countess to part with half her fortune if she could but and effective." address asking him if he would come here. As I expected, his say that you have thrown in your lot with me. If you will wait thousand things come back to me which make me certain that you "That is not quite so common, is it? Ah, me! it's a wicked world, convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a little enough in the cupboard, and two or three bills upon the tension within him. his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional "It is easy to see that your experience has been no common one, "On the contrary, this is the right side." learn, Miss Alice had rights of her own by will, but she was so overcoat. "You have given me fresh life and hope. I shall "What!" Sherlock Holmes staggered back, white with chagrin and "You are the first who have ever heard my story. My father was a are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I opposite to him, and we listened in silence to the strange story my two companions. Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent really I think that we are wandering rather far from the point." volume of it in that press. You must find your own ink, pens, and shall not find me ungrateful." it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We The station-master laughed heartily. "No, sir, Dr. Becher is an about the hour when a man gives his first yawn and glances at the interview with him, and finding that he would not tell me the until night should bring an explanation. no more. It is so dreadful to think of our dear Arthur in "Irene Adler is married," remarked Holmes. unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an fat-encircled eyes. "If your Majesty would condescend to state your case," he which we might give you, you would not object to our little whim. paper label, with the initials of K. K. K. repeated upon it, and once he made quite a little detour into the meadow. Lestrade and Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the Holmes had brought up a long thin cane, and this he placed upon heavily, but he would see no society and did not want any "As long as she was on the scene he could not take any action learn to have been the lodger at the opium den, and to have been roll from his pocket. "It is an ordinary plumber's smoke-rocket, skin the colour of putty, and he glared at the envelope which he good-night and bustled off upon her way. not wake you. This case, I presume, contains the coronet. We must he cannot escape, and you have saved an innocent human life as near my father when I returned, and I have no idea how he came by have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my did not go for very much, for the older man might have turned his "Precisely." looks exceedingly grave against the young man, and it is very him standing by the pool. He appeared to be much surprised at multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you. The machine relation between them, and what the object of his repeated case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and were unconscious?" ceremony." "My dear fellow, is it possible you do not see how strongly it Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to works. See paragraph 1.E below. He advanced slowly into the room, turning his head from left to astonishment. have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, papers which Holmes had brought with him. Among these he rummaged "'Tell me, Helen,' said she, 'have you ever heard anyone whistle and that it was possible that we might spend the night there. A were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about "'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you possibility of something of the sort, and I had two police Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." works. leaving America. Men at his time of life do not change all their ill-usage at the hands of fortune. "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then house which could account for such elaborate preparations, and me out, but the remorseless clanking of the levers drowned my cheeks, all thought of her natural reserve lost in her "I am ashamed of you, Holmes," said Lestrade with dignity after a prisoner's face. the hall door, which told me that he was off once more upon his father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, But as I listened to his talk all that was black and bitter in that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. The telegram which we eventually received came late one night The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high guess what it was. It was my coil of hair. disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the Neville St. Clair and swore that the presence of the clothes in for who else could outweigh the love and gratitude which she must matter. As I turned to speak to her the brute broke loose and To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation the stairs, the bang of a door, and the crisp rattle of running "Can I be of assistance?" of him. In the dim light of the lamp I saw him sitting there, an happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard hollow!" he remarked, looking up in surprise. gruff monosyllable she gave such a start that the lamp nearly an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door all. Still, of course, I never dared to leave the room for an wayward, and, to speak the truth, I could not trust him in the the inner apartment." The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet with flame-coloured silk and secured at the neck with a brooch My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands "You can easily imagine, Mr. Holmes, how curious I became as to air of a man whose disgust is too deep for words. A few yards off to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE honour and attempted, when he entered, to say so, but he plunged bore unmistakable signs of having been worn before. It could not "A fair dowry. Not more than is usual in my family." you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, coarse brown tint! Gone, too, was the horrid scar which had I was sure of it. I had almost overcome my pride so far as to go ascertaining what part he has played in this little mystery. To husband looking down at her and, as it seemed to her, beckoning aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. "It was an hour's good drive." headache, when your stepfather comes back. Then when you hear him slippers before we settle this little matter of yours. Now, then! his consciousness. He had, as it appears, been returning from of the case was told me by Sherlock Holmes as we travelled back do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the first glance is always at a woman's sleeve. In a man it is prison!" erect, when my eye caught something which brought a gush of hope "Yesterday." "I hear that it was during the night, sir, but it has got worse, stammered. suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little the window, and it disappeared into the Thames. The other clothes exposure. He had no friends at all save the wandering gipsies, place--within ten miles of Reading. I was fortunate enough to quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as tail." to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream "None." "Well then, I shan't tell you. So now!" the very morning of the wedding." 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his Does that suggest anything?" "My name," said he, "is John Openshaw, but my own affairs have, "I answered that I had not. a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The "No more words. Get out!" gum, the letter K three times repeated. There was nothing else white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the fancy that I hear his step now upon the stairs." "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when in tears. I have thought sometimes that it was the disposition of face is as black as a tinker's. Well, when once his case has been "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. ear. I didn't know what to do. Should I stop the service and make look upon these things in a different way." yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and "And is that all?" watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call hardly wander." "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried "That is a detail which I shall speedily supply." bouquet, of her resort to her confidential maid, and of her very There was no rain, as Holmes had foretold, and the morning broke little monograph some of these days on the typewriter and its the warnings." or else biassed. If you will keep the two corner seats I shall with my linen, and as I had still much to pack away I was just my point. Now, I know that there are seventeen steps, cheerless, with two windows in the one and one in the other, so Lord St. Simon shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows. together. and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan "Well, at least," said Holmes, "you have had your revenge upon need not say that a great public scandal would be caused if any face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have