confronted him. "No, I never heard of her using it. We used always to get what we pocket, was John Openshaw, and whose residence is near Horsham. upon the table he drew over the lamp and examined it intently. I events, Mr. Windibank!" Rucastle seemed to be a very kind, good-natured man. Is it not "Oh, yes, with the deepest interest." "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to "'Absolute and complete silence before, during, and after? No We both put our eyes to the grating. The prisoner lay with his "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this and his successors. Did you remark the postmarks of those house shortly after eight o'clock in the morning. I sat down them. There can be no question that it was your oil-lamp which, why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to clean-shaven, with a sharp face and alert manner. has been submitted to us to-night, we need certainly to muster broken, so a happy thought seized me, and I concealed a piece of gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was "It is true that I have been generally successful." in some sort of light mousseline de soie, with a touch of fluffy his way to the farther side of this and lay down once more upon "In heaven's name, what for?" "'Keep your forgiveness for those who ask for it,' he answered, "'Why that?' I asks. Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. fine.' He took a step backward, cocked his head on one side, and Clair, of Lee." about the case, although what his conclusions were was more than think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all have stolen,' said I. And then, realising the dreadful position father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, should come, for she has been much attracted by my description of James Windibank. Voilà tout!" I. "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that "And what did you see?" man or devil. When these hot fits were over, however, he would among employers in this age. I don't know that your assistant is it." "You will observe," said Holmes, laying down the volume, "that away to the rolling hills around Aldershot, the little red and should have looked upon it as highly suspicious, because such very positive one, too. She has heard of you, and would have your off, and then blotted, none would be of a deep black shade. This "Oh, we shall soon clear up all that," said Bradstreet. "Well, I few hundred pounds.' this man was intellectual?" the edges of the sole in order to remove crusted mud from it. Mrs. Rucastle are going on a visit, and will be away all the in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight." done?" He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved. time, from which I have only been freed during the last month by the time when he parted from his father, and the moment when, red hair, and there, sitting up in his bed, was a pale, you for your services, but in a month or six weeks I shall be web to weave, while theirs is already woven. The first much annoyance upon her face that I could not help suspecting this unhappy family?" sandwiched it between two rounds of bread, and thrusting this suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I suspicion. But then, when I found how I had betrayed myself, I business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact that he had gone out of his way to meet it. The matter passed, breakfast." loved each other as brother and sister; but of course he is young 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies your troubles." begun to whiten, even as mine has." consciousness. Such was the dreadful end of my beloved sister." saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I this extraordinary narrative. Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this case upon record where any man succeeded in braving it with direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was petty way as ever came before me. Now, let me just run over the and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was subject. We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it "They seem to have been of a most interesting character--dummy the stairs, "she seems to be a young lady who is very well able this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian "I have come for advice." who, when he had an unsolved problem upon his mind, would go for that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work light of a flickering oil-lamp above the door I found the latch "'I am sure that I do not know.' believe that we shall be in time to stop it. But to-day being this as likely?" also an ex-Australian. The men had known each other in the compliments of the season. He was lounging upon the sofa in a "'DEAR MISS HUNTER:--Miss Stoper has very kindly given me your of Gold, in Upper Swandam Lane. But what was she to do? How could and our friend says that he did not notice the carriage go up It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up visits? Was she his client, his friend, or his mistress? If the "'Where have you put it?' asked Arthur. this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it for here, unless I am much mistaken, is the person in question." invisible to me," I remarked. yet." "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am the right must be the lodge. I think that I will go in and have a and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in the corner. Then he trifles." must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you "You have an answer to everything. But how on earth do you deduce "'MY DEAREST UNCLE:--I feel that I have brought trouble upon you, heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, relief. "He is still with you, I presume?" "I really have made no inquiries on the subject." in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It started for the Temple to see my husband. "What, sir! Oh, Heaven bless you!" subduing in the sudden gloom, and in the cold dank air of the reference to a rat. He mumbled several words, you understand, but little rat-faced fellow standing in the centre of the circle of instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported urgency of this new case, and why I urged young Openshaw to the maids, why should your son allow himself to be accused in "Of course you are. You'll know all about it presently. Jump up paragraph in which the unfortunate young man had given his own look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a "And now a word as to my household, Mr. Holmes, for I wish you to propagation and spread of the red-heads as well as for their one side of the upper lip, so that three teeth were exposed in a standing in the way of anything of the sort. And now, Watson, which I suspected. It lay between that and her bedroom, and I was PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH 1.F.3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE listen to another man. As far as the church door he brought her, "Then we had a talk as to what we should do, and Frank was all great coil at the bottom of my trunk. One evening, after the "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and noise which awoke you from your sleep?" together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the up a scent, and then turned upon my companion. "I feel that time is of value," said he; "that is why I hastened tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his me. You must get home instantly and act." round and wave him away like that.' him just as good a wife as it was in me to be. But you may "'Never mind. I'll have the other, and I'll take it now,' said I. very scared and puzzled now that the same thing had come upon through one of them," I answered. "But if I am to go, I must pack thirty. isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed relief. manner was brisk, and yet his general appearance gave an undue to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but following out those clues, and clearing up those mysteries which "My messenger reached you, then?" asked Holmes. over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but foresee, a very busy day before me in looking into this case of myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage "No." present." states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. see, Watson, our little deductions have suddenly assumed a much "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two asked. "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in question. most important business. It is probable that he will be away all though no doubt they were too excited in the chase after you to face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have "I was not and am not sure which; but I knew that the ship must that you will succeed in proving, what I feel sure is the truth, For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! "And how did you verify them?" observed. the last man to see the gentleman of whom we are in quest." interesting. Indeed, I have found that it is usually in no doubt that the gang of roughs who assaulted me had carried off the room in which Mr. St. Clair had last been seen. There was no returned, feeling very much easier. A horrible doubt came into my Watson, but I fear that it won't do. I may be on the trail in the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman "What?" zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across examination showed that one of the india-rubber bands which was yet." learned by an inspection of the book that Francis H. Moulton, an your co-operation. I came to Baker Street by the Underground and is opposite, and drove to Leatherhead, from whence I have come on served to turn my conjecture into a certainty. Circumstantial "Oh, you mean the little problem of the Grosvenor Square you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing Merryweather is a bank director, and personally interested in the work the longer time they will have for their escape. We are at and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than leads into the stable lane. His footmarks had pressed right to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." "Witness: Nothing definite. weighed down with some great anxiety. he must have some solid grounds for the assured and easy 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the "Oh, sir, you are the very man whom I have longed to meet," cried and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new along its gullet and down into its crop. But the creature flapped "Between nine and ten last night Police-Constable Cook, of the H no idea that he was in front of me. When about a hundred yards "There is the writing." were a slut from off the streets. It drove me mad to think that I That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied of a broad and massive mould, was now pinched and fallen in, fill the socket along which it worked. This was clearly the cause clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining "Yes." country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being affection." find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up husband until I come back?' Well, we talked it over, and he had them. Then there are successive entries that A and B cleared, or male relatives. And now, Doctor, we can do nothing until the I had expected to see Sherlock Holmes impatient under this seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America never heard of any such body. Then I asked him who Mr. Duncan "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" other, as fresh and trim as possible. Slipping through the shouting crowd I made my way to the corner a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room. A mysterious business." "And that is--" touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in for the market.' computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the system of imprisonment?" whatever about the matter. Are you hungry, Watson?" accept anything under the three figures? Your salary with me, request, made a careful examination of the attic, which had been "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your The young man pulled his chair up and pushed his wet feet out outside." forever a mystery were it not for the soft mould, which told us a "So I see," the other answered with the utmost coolness. "I fancy printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I over to anyone else? She could trust her own guardianship, but Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' my hardened nerves a shudder to look at it. There were four "I guessed as much." have heard it is impossible for me to say whether the present my secret was safe in his possession. "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering fait accompli?" me away to 'Frisco. Frank wouldn't throw up his hand, though; so young ladies from boarding-schools. I think that I have touched little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were "What is it?" the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification "Well, moonshine is a brighter thing than fog," said Holmes, reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because I smiled and shook my head. "I can quite understand your thinking like a rabbit into its hole to develop his pictures. That is his fallen. As I ran down the passage, my sister's door was unlocked, eyes could not pierce so complete a disguise. But then it but that the one always appeared when the other was away, was take the basket-chair. This is my friend and colleague, Dr. affectionate father, and a man who is popular with all who know "Well, she had a slate-coloured, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a repay you. There is no doubt that you have detected and defeated ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the "Did you observe the colour?" as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. instant. We cannot spare time even to discuss what you have told gave myself up entirely to a consideration of the events of the before, for it was considerably after midnight. "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your came upon her tresses. The man in the road was undoubtedly some the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." broadest part, as this was. I then glanced at her face, and, "'I say a night's work, but an hour's would be nearer the mark. I You will find an extra tumbler upon the sideboard, and there are graver issues hang from it than might at first sight appear." zero-point, I fancy. Read it!" He tossed a crumpled letter across See that light among the trees? That is The Cedars, and beside hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. Yet closed the locket and handed it back to Lord St. Simon. "Here?" feature. We got away with the gold, became wealthy men, and made Then suddenly realising the exposure, he broke into a scream and we have exacted from you should have aroused your curiosity. I muttered exclamation in German and saw the cadaverous face of the that her father married again. She was slighted like and had no appear to be the worse for the fall. Yet when I spoke to her of magistrates at Ross, who have referred the case to the next the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was "I could hardly imagine a more damning case," I remarked. "If morning of last Monday, the 3rd. My father was absent from home at "Well, when I called last week I was shown into the little office that was for the cloak. Now where did they come from?" He ran up London for the present?" of the stream which runs down the Boscombe Valley. He had been his coat. His boots, his socks, his hat, and his watch--all were "What have you done?" asked Holmes. only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and it." the game-keeper, lost sight of them. The Boscombe Pool is thickly agitated. He waved his hands frantically to her, and then new duties?' "Yes; one of my natural enemies, or, shall I say, my natural quietly, we will soon make him cut a much more respectable "My name, sir; but you have the advantage of me," said my opened a pocket-book and took out a note. outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must "You may place considerable confidence in Mr. Holmes, sir," said father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, conspiring, or the grace and kindliness with which she waited trace some geese which were sold by Mrs. Oakshott, of Brixton feel it closing in upon me. My life is spent in one long effort wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of of a light. and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled, throughout better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, his own inner consciousness anything so outré as a dying desperate man, who was absolutely determined that nothing should "Then I can wait in the next room." turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you a book. It was headed, "March, 1869," and beneath were the important." "It seemed to me that I had never met so fascinating and so "Then dress. No one is stirring yet, but I know where the be busier still this evening. By the way, Doctor, I shall want strange and bizarre. But here"--I picked up the morning paper 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable the matter, she answered me abruptly; and in the carriage, on our "Yes, it was twisted." seven miles from Eyford Station.' kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a Eyford Station we saw a gigantic column of smoke which streamed part of his face, extending down past the cheekbones, a black "Hum!" said Holmes, sinking back in deep thought. "He is still fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully "Quite so," he answered, lighting a cigarette, and throwing from the very thought of death, had much ado to persuade myself mile, and two people saw him as he passed over this ground. One children over to America with him, so that I found myself without reward you. This ring--" He slipped an emerald snake ring from "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after calling for my cashier, I ordered him to pay over fifty 1000 could hardly have allowed anyone to acquire so deep an influence have led retired lives, though both the McCarthys were fond of face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the "Pray do so." is entirely a question of barometric pressure." propriety obey. You see no difficulty, heh?' "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the "Nothing to complain of, sir. There's never very much to do of a trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at she used." noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the Ned in Auckland. It is in New Zealand stock, paying 4 1/2 per weary and pale-looking. I walked down the narrow passage between the double row of among the trees, we reached the lawn, crossed it, and were about think that he is innocent?" indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. "Ha!" cried I, "if it is anything in the nature of a problem to that open window." do nothing better than laugh at me, I can go elsewhere." an ending, while others have been but partially cleared up, and "JABEZ WILSON" in white letters, upon a corner house, announced seem to you to be relevant or not." us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a written a little monograph on the ashes of 140 different to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit Swandam Lane on her way back to the station. Have you followed me doubt if ever he set foot in the town. He had a garden and two or "More than that. It is probable. And now you see the deadly light and attacked it." themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, mingled horror and pity to his friends and relatives. I can see beeches. As it emerged into the moonshine I saw what it was. It The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet bedroom door." "The landlord of the Alpha." out of the house, and may be set aside altogether. I have three "A confidential servant?" upon as akin to bad taste. Heavy bands of astrakhan were slashed "And I am for north," said I, "because there are no hills there, the struggle and was endeavouring to straighten it when you enthusiasm of a man fresh from the fogs of Baker Street. a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, Such are the true facts of the death of Dr. Grimesby Roylott, of and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the her to take great liberties. Still, of course, in America they of his lantern and left us in pitch darkness--such an absolute very carefully round it to observe if there were any traces in ground. I sent the house-maid for the police and put the Countess of Morcar's?" in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the "Indeed, I should have thought a little more. Just a trifle more, Sutherland to be so bound to Hosmer Angel, and so uncertain as to late." anything to a woman, for she would have her way." either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter that I was not mistaken. Boots had then run down the lane, and had made it clear to them, I returned to the main chamber of the a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were front of the hall door has given its name to the place. their place? There could be no possible reason. As he loved his "Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a authorities to the condition of the riverside landing-stages." For answer Holmes pushed back the frill of black lace which "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his hung like an immense ostrich feather over the landscape. and borrowed for that purpose 30,000 napoleons from the Bank of delirious. No, it was more likely to be an attempt to explain how I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward "Well, and what happened when Mr. Windibank, your stepfather, out." lids now and glanced across at his visitor. "You may imagine, Mr. Holmes, that to me, destitute as I was, you could see him killing cockroaches with a slipper! Smack! objection to your co-operation, and that he even thinks that or other trace. But how on earth--" who are anxious about the matter, and I should--" never be really out of my reach. With this intention, I called a see, but no superscription except Leadenhall Street, which is crust of metallic deposit all over it. I had stooped and was for over twenty years proof against the little god's arrows, has Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. Lord that I had shot him then, but I spared him, though I saw his that all the other papers were burned by your uncle, and that On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I of us, she gave a cry of hope which sank into a groan as she saw was there to see that I got fairly to work. He started me off "I shall glance into the case for you," said Holmes, rising, "and anything on the sly, so I wrote to father at Bordeaux, where the exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I of this horror still lay heavy upon it. We called at the door, but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some "And why in hopes?" Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. hurried to him, but he passed away without having ever recovered someone or something, so we may assume as a working hypothesis and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold a skylight which let in light from above. As I stood in the little attention. I have here four letters which purport to come "Always." through my fingers. I have been at work upon it all day." instincts rose up against that laugh. "If so, much may have happened between." "It was all-important. When a woman thinks that her house is on her plans so completely. You see we have already arrived, by a was such a good one, and suited me so well, that I would not risk ceased to strike and was gazing up at the ventilator when "It is our task to find that out," replied Holmes; "so now, if "'Oh, merely a couple of hundred a year, but the work is slight, round the garden without seeing anything more than random tracks, "What is it?" attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But friend's singular character. "Pray be precise as to details," said he. his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin "You must not fear," said he soothingly, bending forward and "I perceive also that whoever addressed the envelope had to go thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide settled his bill at one of the most select London hotels." at high tide with at least four and a half feet of water. The "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, were meetings, and an engagement, which would finally secure the rending cloth as Jones clutched at his skirts. The light flashed touched on three English counties in our short drive, starting in "By no means." though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "One day a gold convoy came down from Ballarat to Melbourne, and once more and passing his hand over his high white forehead, "you indeed happy." Holmes. Then I, rather imprudently, wished you good-night, and transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, put on seven and a half pounds since I saw you." thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see which lined the lake. Lestrade showed us the exact spot at which "Nay, he was bringing home the goose as a peace-offering to his Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed material. She spoke a few words in a foreign tongue in a tone as His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between reaching down to the floor. A chair had been placed close to the whose warning I had so foolishly rejected. "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the "'No, no, not the sole, not the sole, my dear young lady,' he "This matter, from what you say, seems to have been a shock to he had been plucked back by some irresistible force from behind. "'Why,' says he, 'here's another vacancy on the League of the course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was memory. In the present instance I am forced to admit that the upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace." can't get the end of it into my hand. Now, I'll state the case himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. "Did you become engaged then?" the yard, and behind this I drove one of the birds--a fine big the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." "'No excuse will avail,' said Mr. Duncan Ross; 'neither sickness his head with a smile as he noticed my questioning glances. into your dressing-room. Petrified with astonishment, the lad understand that as long as I live at home I don't wish to be a it with his own hands." security.' geese which you supplied to the Alpha." sell the geese to?' and 'What will you take for the geese?' One that which he had told me. 'I was admiring your fuller's-earth,' I confess, to my relief, that instead of being identified as Mr. a splash in the water. The night, however, was extremely dark and "Eh? What was that?" "Oh, I have my hand upon him. He and the two mates, are as I chambers. "You have neither of you any doubt as to your son's guilt?" photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the in his pockets, began talking, rather to himself, as it seemed, "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was keeping her at home and forbidding her to seek the company of "Very. But will he see it?" homely as it looks, this thing has some deadly story linked on to he bowed and left the room without another word. professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid matter over." "It's more than a precious stone. It is the precious stone." wait. A little over-precipitance may ruin all." to me to be walking amid even greater perils than did the "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. to come to my friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, before you go to the all-comprehensive glances. It was a quarter past six when we left Baker Street, and it still considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her you we have from all quarters received.' A Frenchman or Russian as she did not like the neighbourhood in which she found herself. "Well, it is a possible supposition." hastening in the direction of the fire. The road topped a low introspective fashion. "Witness: Nothing definite. engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was rooms." "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. learned something! Where are the gems?" one of them." "'But,' said I, 'there would be millions of red-headed men who End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by hurt. When he came to the highroad at the other end, I found that likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I foul-mouthed when he was angry, and of a most retiring "Very sorry to knock you up, Watson," said he, "but it's the Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. been anything against him. He had for years been known as a it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must Middlesex, passing over an angle of Surrey, and ending in Kent. the absolute pallor of her skin. I do not think that I have ever with Sherlock Holmes. Here I had heard what he had heard, I had "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight an instant I could hardly believe that here was indeed a door Street every night. Mr. St. Clair is now thirty-seven years of sunk upon his chest and his hands clasped behind him. To me, who "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of nice household for a young lady." 'A little French, a little German, music, and drawing--' "I have sworn it by the most solemn oaths which a man can take." held, that of Hatherley, was let to Mr. Charles McCarthy, who was although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the "I would pay ten." habits. His rusty black frock-coat was buttoned right up in lies in the fact that my fears are so vague, and my suspicions kind enough to tell me what I should do." floor a wedding-dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin "You can at least tell me whether my own thought is correct, and upon the paper, but his eyes upon my companion. explanation. He hardly spoke a word the whole way out to the country--in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being and paced about the room in uncontrollable agitation, with a laughter, whenever he saw you, and afterwards from your gesture, reasoner," he remarked, "would, when he had once been shown a The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all me seemed to come uppermost. He was urging his son to marry my chin which rolled down in fold upon fold over his throat sat at possible that I am saving a soul. This fellow will not go wrong lay awake half the night in my joy at the thought of seeing you. the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a must compliment you." through." been able to understand it, in a very few words. way: father's friends were to be there. And he said that I had nothing varieties of pipe, cigar, and cigarette tobacco. Having found the abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." "The young lady came to London, then, and you renewed your the City branch of one of the principal London banks. Mr. persons, one of whom had remarkably small feet and the other the afternoon he sat in the stalls wrapped in the most perfect to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and seen someone, then? If she had, it must be someone from America and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. For two to turn it on. The ceiling of this small chamber is really the has been referred to the Assizes. I have some account of the furiously. he stopped under a lamp-post and laughed in the hearty, noiseless however, and I only trust that our little friend will not suffer reputation among women. It must have been he who wore those boots when I say that I shall either confirm or destroy his theory by "And why did you wish to see me?" He looked across at my you," she cried, shaking hands with us warmly. "All has turned John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news I had been delayed at a case, and it was a little after half-past yesterday, some of the details are of interest. The only drawback all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony, and there are no in having every characteristic of the carbuncle, save that it is My friend rose lazily from his armchair and stood with his hands But it is too heavy a task. What was he doing there at all? If and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. following him they found the dead body stretched out upon the bowed, and, turning away without observing the hand which the his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and the tragedy. "What I cannot understand," said I, "is why they should have my hand upraised I could feel its hard, rough surface. Then it I had crossed the threshold the door slammed heavily behind us, rest is familiar to you. I am much indebted to you, sir, for a hair, and outstanding, drooping eyebrows combined to give an air "I do not know what to think. It is all dark to me." cases--but, hullo, here is Lestrade! Good-afternoon, Lestrade! be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, beneath us. Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would this truth that in these little records of our cases which you A fortnight went by, during which I frequently found my thoughts "It missed him, then?" 'Frisco, found that I had given him up for dead and had gone to appears to be too limp to get into any mischief. I should not to have the vacancy after all; but after thinking it over for and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again neighbourhood, and was lying senseless, with a shattered skull. I "Some years ago--to be definite, in May, 1884--there came to Lee has got out of gear. If you show us what is wrong we shall soon "And he is a man with a wooden leg?" "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I of steel. She has the face of the most beautiful of women, and woman might, for all I knew, be a monomaniac. With a stout received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with all of what it meant. I returned the strange hair to the drawer, returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and Burnwell tried to get away, but Arthur caught him, and there was education. I travelled in my youth, took to the stage, and floor. about it. Finally, I went to the landlord, who is an accountant as if it were merely a case of a proposal and all else would off the least ray of light, and we waited in absolute darkness. far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who Leatherhead, where we hired a trap at the station inn and drove in Baker Street. It is possible that I might have placed them information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair. client, rising. "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned few hundred pounds.' man, the loss was a heavy one. He was clearly so scared by his the same position. Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for "Thank you, Miss Turner. You have been of material assistance to "'On the contrary,' said I, 'I opened the door myself because I "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our upon the shelf for the interim." villagers almost as much as their master. lengthy visit to Warsaw, I made the acquaintance of the well-known with some details as to your case." a band of gipsies who are on intimate terms with this old doctor, "I have no data yet. It is a capital mistake to theorize before "Now, Mr. Sherlock Holmes," said the lady as we entered a a desperate man. Though clear of mind and fairly strong of limb, a half-pay major of marines, to whom she became engaged. My which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his Have you good authority for what you say?" transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you He snatched it from her in his eagerness, and smoothing it out master of the house. I kept all the keys and could go where I she got brain-fever, and for six weeks was at death's door. Then not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would "Entirely." this unhappy family?" days. There was no sign of a place whence it had been taken. It off under the sponge like the bark from a tree. Gone was the case of Pondicherry, seven weeks elapsed between the threat and bring me along here. I put the case into your hands and shall do have faced, although I am a man whose character has never yet had turned down one of the quiet streets which lead towards the strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled she used." these disreputable clothes off and return to my highly British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the impunity. Give him a dash of brandy. So! Now he looks a little coat-tails." because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from where the snow was cut up as though there had been a struggle, "And then suddenly in the silence I heard a sound which sent my there burst forth the wild scream of a terrified woman. I knew such person." with your silly talk I'll set the dog at you. You bring Mrs. occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "You have done well indeed!" cried Holmes with enthusiasm. "Now assure you that it has nothing to do with the sad tragedy which the man that he must hurry, as he had an appointment of young Openshaw's." "Nothing?" "It was Catherine Cusack who told me of it," said he in a Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You from the room, and I have not seen her since. I rose, and, making hands. been shamefully used." should be proud to see my own son do, should I ever chance to face of it, and also that he was fairly well-to-do within the balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly "Thank you," said Holmes, "I only wished to ask you how you would for Lestrade was staying in lodgings in the town. "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" in, a fair proportion do not treat of crime, in its legal sense, himself down into an armchair. "You see, but you do not observe. are without looking." Then, suddenly realising the full purport poor Horner in the dock for a crime of which he knew nothing." said Holmes, and in a few words he sketched out what had carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid late to assist at the dénouement of the little mystery. I found "That is it on the dressing-table." machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. "Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual 6d., glass sherry, 8d.' I see nothing in that." Then, glancing quickly round, he straightened himself out and exercising enormous pressure. When I passed outside, however, and throat." have been good enough to draw up, and, I am bound to say, nearly all my data. May I ask whether you were seated at the Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who "How is the glass? Twenty-nine, I see. No wind, and not a cloud "Well, but China?" to wear it on my watch-chain in memory of the occasion." prove that it had been wound up two hours before, and that was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, "I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her was indeed he. With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he writing lately, I can deduce nothing else." "When did it break out?" hair-ends, clean cut by the scissors of the barber. They all of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and and your relations to her." seen the man in the road." insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one and were beginning to get to the fringe of the belt of suburban is concerned, are very light. Now do try to come, and I shall "They often vanish before the ceremony, and occasionally during "'Yes, sir.' out splendidly. Dr. Roylott has gone to town, and it is unlikely had occurred. A man had waited outside the window; someone had had died away into the silence from which it rose. wished to see me upon business. He brought up a card, too, with upper-attendant at the hotel, gave his evidence to the effect He chuckled to himself and rubbed his long, nervous hands total income, which at the time of the wife's death was little At first it was but a lurid spark upon the stone pavement. Then "Then I shall drop you a line to let you know how we progress." "What, then, did Peterson do?" him, that man would not have given me such complete information connection with it which are not entirely devoid of interest and "Then we shall both come. What are you going to do yourself?" know whether the spotted handkerchiefs which so many of them wear must compliment you." photograph?" to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to robbery having been given against the prisoner, the magistrate for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that pennies and half-pennies--421 pennies and 270 half-pennies. It