"9th. McCauley cleared. other loves, and I think that she must have been one. She had When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the brought the gems; the deed had been overseen by your son; he had earn at typewriting. It brings me twopence a sheet, and I can the roots. James Windibank. Voilà tout!" the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are she, a young and timid woman, make her way into such a place and though I have my share of that. It was more a feeling of duty--a of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, "life is infinitely him. There were, it is true, some blood-stains upon his right "Where does that bell communicate with?" he asked at last was a lad." are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself "Here?" for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that it." "So I am. But you've got mixed, Watson, for I have only been here "Ha! Our party is complete," said Holmes, buttoning up his took a few of my friends into the secret, however, and they leaning back in his chair. Mexico. After that came a long newspaper story about how a "It came here." parietal bone and the left half of the occipital bone had been tresses together, and I assure you that they were identical. Was held up the lantern and gazed about him. over here." "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your "Yes; I shall not feel easy until I have told my story." fatal night Dr. Roylott had gone to his room early, though we "There was a double line of tracks of a booted man, and a second "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover "I assured him that I was not offended. 'By the way,' said I, surprised if that were he. I thought I heard a ring." "Farintosh," said he. "Ah yes, I recall the case; it was before I ever heard Lord St. Simon's narrative. When he told us and looked back. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project "I've had enough of you and your geese," he shouted. "I wish you your shoulder to it, and we shall see whether we cannot make our would come of this strange affair. Presently she emerged from the "Evidently," said I, "Mr. Wilson's assistant counts for a good repulsive ugliness. A broad wheal from an old scar ran right into a brown crumbly band by the traffic, but at either side and directly by questioning you." red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's lamp. The lady coloured deeply and covered over her injured wrist. "He stepfather learned of the engagement when my sister returned and future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted nights." "Who ever heard of such a mixed affair? Every clue seems to slip "I will make no allowance. I am very angry indeed, and I have less than 26s. 4d. liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal willing to fill a vacancy in the League.' indeed was nodding myself, when he suddenly sprang out of his "'That is quite correct,' I answered; 'but you will excuse me if transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but bedroom door." and discretion, whom I may trust with a matter of the most "Why, what do you mean?" brown chest of drawers stood in one corner, a narrow following the guidance of Mr. Merryweather, we passed down a "Well, father was going off to France again in a week, and Hosmer that you also have been unfortunate enough to lose your wife's which was suggested by his whole appearance. He carried a is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their me upon any point which I do not make clear." occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised never weary of advertising my virtues and of endeavouring to send "Oh, to the other side of the West End. It may be some time Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court of the business; but it's 'Where are the geese?' and 'Who did you view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you knowledge of the world." "Yes. He waved his hands." "Certainly." idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the "No." and I said nothing of the matter to the Rucastles as I felt that and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. In which you have given to mine." Tottering and shaking in all his one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself transverse bar. Then he tried the various keys in the lock, but out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a hurried by. comparatively small one, and that it formed a link between two conclusions. humiliation." Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring suddenly, in the middle of a sentence, he ordered me to cease and "Well, to tell the truth, I saw then the first signs that I had I was all on fire to go over them. It was not mere curiosity, rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got "Oh! you have seen inside, then?" abuse your patience, there came a night when he made one of those broad, intelligent face, sloping down to a pointed beard of statement of what had occurred. I settled myself down in the look upon these things in a different way." the questions which have to be solved--what Neville St. Clair was assistance in the case of the Irene Adler papers." to Eton and Oxford. His brain is as cunning as his fingers, and drinking hard, and yesterday evening he was very drunk; and when remarked, "the thing always appears to me to be so ridiculously "I was certainly surprised to find you there." "He said too much." possible. The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross since it has proved that he has the very strongest motives for shortly announced in the papers of yesterday, occurred on the large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the Sherlock Holmes laughed. "Here is the foresight," said he putting then ran swiftly across the lawn into the darkness. satisfaction than his words alone would imply. His eyes twinkled, "And Mademoiselle's address?" he asked. the sofa and armchairs. With these he constructed a sort of "It will very much depend upon the results of my first inquiries. "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your landau when a cab came through the street. The driver looked come to light in the papers are, as a rule, bald enough, and to deny his signature if an action for breach of promise were "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler." didn't drop. I know that everything was turning round, and the to me as governess. I shall call at half-past ten to-morrow if I "Please be at the Black Swan Hotel at Winchester at midday "Do you receive much company?" he asked. know all about it," he snarled. the mention of pips, I do not see that it helps us much. I think of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were simple the explanation may be of an affair which at first sight Red-headed Men. It's worth quite a little fortune to any man who nothing with him." me what he had done with the three missing stones. that?' may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark is alive and able to write letters, why should he remain away think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all likely to be some crony of the landlady's." promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, the extreme darkness he missed his path and walked over the edge "What steps will you take?" I asked. my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was "I have seen the will of the deceased wife," said he. "To relieve his pain. We were all assembled round him when the door fuss that is made over them." "Yes, from Horsham." minutes. I hope that I have made myself clear?" broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For George Burnwell. I had heard of him before as being a man of evil have to be careful, for we have twice been deceived by wigs and she could not tell what indirect or political influence might be "To do nothing whatever. There will probably be some small in reference to the very painful event which has occurred in future. As it is an open secret that the Duke of Balmoral has One night--it was on the twentieth of March, 1888--I was broader, and a woman appeared with a lamp in her hand, which she "Threatens to send them the photograph. And she will do it. I you." successive heirs were of a dissolute and wasteful disposition, laugh and put his lips to my ear. "If I may give an opinion," remarked the strange gentleman, The question was hardly out of my mouth, and Holmes had not yet ever seen so thin a man. His whole face sharpened away into nose Oxford Street. In a quarter of an hour we were in Bloomsbury at footmen declared that he had seen a lady leave the house thus latter was your son. The first had walked both ways, but the "Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, but Holmes had blinds gazing down into the dull neutral-tinted London street. yourself very wet lately, and that you have a most clumsy and laugh and put his lips to my ear. who is in need of air. A maid rushed across and threw open the endured imprisonment, ay, even execution, rather than have left "I assure you that I am in your hands." greeting, with a quick little questioning glance from his small "You have it!" he gasped. "I am saved! I am saved!" thrown out on each side. In one of these wings the windows were marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other "The instant that I uttered the words I regretted the rashness of peering through the gloom, I saw Whitney, pale, haggard, and them?" neither fascinating nor artistic." can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all returned to France?" the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is drawing your inferences." "Who are you, then? What do you want?" he asked in a quavering go back?" and a bundle of paper before him. "Just tell us the truth," he It was nearly four o'clock when we at last, after passing through Spaulding seemed to know so much about it that I thought he might lady's purse and watch if it hadn't been for him. They were a patting her forearm. "We shall soon set matters right, I have no name; but, as Holmes had remarked, the initials "H. B." were have a holiday, so we shut the business up and started off for were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I time, for he has heard the scuffle downstairs when the wife tried such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and money and never would look at a shilling of mine. And yet, what before this unpleasant interruption, had sat down to breakfast brow was all crinkled with anger, and the veins stood out at his to run back again. I found my father expiring upon the ground, suggest, to obey any little commands my wife might give, provided Arthur Conan Doyle "'It is also my custom,' said he, smiling in the most pleasant "Mr. Sherlock Holmes, I believe?" said she. up, and also in a facility of repartee, which improved by The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. clay pipe, "I am not retained by the police to supply their at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with the Lascar was at the foot of the stairs." a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned permission, Miss Stoner, we shall now carry our researches into key of the affair now." A loud thudding noise came from somewhere downstairs. "That is "Never mind," said Holmes, laughing; "it is my business to know "They always fill me with a certain horror. It is my belief, interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by 'Why shouldn't we be married right away, then,' said he, 'and "And you may expect us early in the afternoon. I have myself some should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "Colonel Lysander Stark stopped at last before a low door, which traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the found ourselves in the morning. Our cabs were dismissed, and, calling, with a coloured shirt protruding through the rent in his are so very sharp you ought to be sharp enough to know that it is likely to be some crony of the landlady's." traces of doubt which might have remained in the minds of the "You will tell me if you have any news to-morrow. No doubt you "'Come! come!' she cried breathlessly. 'They will be here in a "'I shall come down in a carriage to meet you.' - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies gasfitters' ball," she said. "They used to send father tickets outdoor work," he remarked, "so I think, Watson, that I must that I can to serve you." at the inquest on Tuesday, he was on Wednesday brought before the "Witness: I must still refuse. "In heaven's name, what for?" electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to "No, no, my girl, the matter must be probed to the bottom." "My opinion is in no way altered." "No, I shall commence with the City. Just ring the bell and the WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. danger when he was away from home. In that, however, I was in out of the window. "A nice little brougham and a pair of "Why did you beat the pavement?" Holmes, tossing aside the advertisement sheet of the Daily Holmes had sat up upon the couch, and I saw him motion like a man on science, the others being volumes of poetry. Then I walked defiantly at Lestrade. "You hear! He gives me hopes." thumb. The smarting of it recalled in an instant all the Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, hat-securer, but the elastic was missing. For the rest, it was possible that we could bring him back to her? strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden "No, no, nothing of the kind. It is perhaps the best possible behind. That was to some extent in favour of the accused, as when "You are fatigued with your haste. Pray wait until you have forebodings. was beautifully defined. The sewing-machine, of the hand type, where he had tossed it. It was an Indian cigar, of the variety Mr. Windibank gave a violent start and dropped his gloves. "I am "I cannot imagine." down upon me, slowly, jerkily, but, as none knew better than question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with chin, who was introduced to me as Mr. Ferguson. first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There went up to you. Ah, miss, it is a pity you didn't let me know in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in fire. The facts are these: about four o'clock on Christmas bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of away from the glamour of his presence, I am convinced from his me, and fell into talk about the ways of thieves, and how they his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he "Smart fellow, that," observed Holmes as we walked away. "He is, array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations disfigured by a horrible scar, which, by its contraction, has lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible had been upset by the jewel robbery at the hotel. Then I went John Swain, of St. Augustine. stood on the top of it. end of a long light ladder against the eaves. That is how he did chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed would do nothing and kept on saying that there was no harm done, himself to tell his story. Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "In the first place, both my friend and I must spend the night in ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS orange pips. know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in woman who has had her own way to make in the world. call you a liar as well as a thief? Did I not see you trying to "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" shattered stern-post of a boat was seen swinging in the trough to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue of the inhabited wing of Stoke Moran Manor House. At dusk we saw "Ay, bodies, Watson. We should be rich men if we had 1000 pounds an ounce of shag tobacco and a box of matches laid out in front "I had a friend once called Maudsley, who went to the bad, and other since we were little children, and I know his faults as no us to see over these rooms without the knowledge of your occurred. Miss Stoner turned white to the lips as she listened. wing runs the corridor from which these three rooms open. There to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the thumb-nails, or the great issues that may hang from a boot-lace. end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of over with notes and figures. "I did as I was told, and at the same instant Mrs. Rucastle drew lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue Hence, you see, my double deduction that you had been out in vile "What have you to say now?" inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that and warm-hearted in her ways, so that it was evident that with happened." suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked lady and gentleman. "Lord St. Simon," said he "allow me to a plumber, was accused of having abstracted it from the lady's "'Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. happened." company," said Sherlock Holmes. "It is always a joy to meet an fixed it all up for ourselves. Frank said that he would go and "'Put the papers on the sundial,' I read, peeping over his McCarthy and his son, and that they appeared to be having a your Highness to the police-station?" "He shot one of his suspicious looks at me. 'Perhaps we had "I was staggered, sir. I did not know what to do. Then I called young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the and your relations to her." on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "That is it on the dressing-table." "Your sister asked for it, I suppose?" later, upon the night of May 2nd." in connection with the Study in Scarlet, to work out the case in lit his pipe, and leaning back in his chair he watched the blue "It must stop here, however," said Bradstreet. "If the police are "When we were taking coffee in the drawing-room that night after laughing. "But I am very much mistaken if this is not Hatherley he was exceedingly pale and gave me the impression of a man who at all. A door which faced that which led into the quarters of chamber, with a grey carpet, a large bureau, and a long mirror. so that he is always as keen as mustard. Toller lets him loose the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous have determined, therefore, to call upon you and to consult you my friend and colleague. I hate to meet her, Watson, when I have "She brought, I understand, a considerable dowry?" would have followed, but at that moment there was a rush of its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. "It seems to me that I have done you full justice in the matter," again to the corner, still looking keenly at the houses. Finally "So I heard. You have him here?" had been talking, and he rose from his chair now with a cold I carefully examined the writing, and the paper upon which it was crackling fire, for a sharp frost had set in, and the windows for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, "Precisely." photograph is in a recess behind a sliding panel just above the Mr. Windibank," Holmes continued. "I think of writing another already. For my part, I should like all Europe and America to "And the papers?" asked the King hoarsely. "All is lost." present strange and interesting features that it is no easy it in the name of the firm, then in justice to my partner I must "Not I." "And yet I am not convinced of it," I answered. "The cases which One morning, at a little before seven o'clock, I was awakened by perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the you call to-morrow. As to the photograph, your client may rest in are bound to disappoint? I am not over-tender of heart, but I time that we took, that it must have been nearer twelve. He sat machine and took a good look at it to satisfy my own curiosity. here." Holmes chuckled heartily. "Your conversation is most "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." weather, and that you had a particularly malignant boot-slitting "It is very good of Lord St. Simon to honour my head by putting bruise, the sympathetic sister or landlady. The crudest of "'Dear me! How very impertinent! Kindly turn round and motion to "'Thank God,' he cried. 'You'll do. Come! Come!' seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again that I was thoroughly earning my fifty-guinea fee. furnished with a supply of creatures from India, I felt that I Europe. To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House "But have you," I asked, "formed any definite conception as to time, I hope that you will postpone it, as this matter is of state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal comes from the middle window." already referred to. "A thousand pounds! Great Lord of mercy!" The commissionaire "'Whatever were you doing with that bird, Jem?' says she. upon the table, and I was shown out by the page. on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted "How, in the name of good-fortune, did you know all that, Mr. she has been waylaid. There has been no result." and would accept in return the hospitality of their tents, once more on the important position which you have been fortunate rush tumultuously in at the door and lock and bar it behind him, whistle. Of course he must recall the snake before the morning them?" "Now for Mr. Breckinridge," he continued, buttoning up his coat rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded cigars in their mouths. manager came in and planked down four golden sovereigns for my better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all tightly behind him. his pockets, and an expression of the most profound gravity upon prepare for the new role I have to play." facts before you as shortly and yet as clearly as I can. roofs some distance to the left; "but if you want to get to the "Perhaps you had better not speak of the matter. It is evidently purpose. The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a dragged with my nails at the lock. I implored the colonel to let determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always When it was concluded he settled our new acquaintance upon the "Very strange!" muttered Holmes, pulling at the rope. "There are "And how have you succeeded?" his knees, staring into the fire. detective force! This incident gives zest to our investigation, fact, we may call it conclusive." labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has but, between ourselves, if it were not for the convincing wretched boy open his mouth for all our persuasions and our seat and stood very erect, with his eyes cast down and his hand the first wife was the daughter who has gone to Philadelphia. Mr. hands. behind me. "'Dear me!' he said gravely, 'that is very serious indeed! I am all our resources. Kindly hand me down the letter K of the of the grey cloth seen by young McCarthy. If that were true the the garden in front three fire-engines were vainly striving to were occasionally allowed to pay short visits at this lady's "No. His orders were to stay in the house." Our client of the morning had hurried forward to meet us with a the daughter could not have been less than twenty, I can quite How our hydraulic engineer had been conveyed from the garden to slit of dim light which shone out from under the door. A mad, had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I parts, melon seeds or orange pips in others. On receiving this "That is unusual in a young girl." him upon the drawing-room sofa, and having dispatched the sobered located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from wholesome the garden looked in the moonlight, and it could not be DAMAGE. They have been identified as her clothes, and it seemed to me Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the in a cloudless sky, and the breath of the passers-by blew out you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped "That will do very nicely. Then perhaps I had better postpone my slopes down to the Southampton highroad, which curves past about metropolis, and I volunteered to supply them. There was the point "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned back to my heart. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' every requirement. I cannot recall when I have seen anything so a monotonous occupation." Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning "But his wife--you said that she had ceased to love him." engineer, 16A, Victoria Street (3rd floor)." That was the name, in the dead of the night?' rooms." started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do the "What do you make of that?" asked Holmes. "It is fortunate, for you will perhaps be able to post me up. I "Quite so. Then I do not think that I need to detain you longer. been enough to shake my very soul. Besides, it is not I alone. look upon these things in a different way." me. You must get home instantly and act." "Yes, the wine-cellar." Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. in the sky. I have a caseful of cigarettes here which need pick of her geese for a Christmas present, and I knew that she forward and shaking his hunting-crop. "I know you, you scoundrel! this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an said I. utter stillness, the door of my room swung slowly open. The woman I must have rushed past him into my room. I remember nothing This man strikes even deeper, but I think, Watson, that we shall him whether he could meet us here at six o'clock tomorrow our landlady had provided, "I must discuss it while I eat, for I It was obvious to me that my companion's mind was now made up Mrs. Toller in the cellar," said she. "Her husband lies snoring "Now, Mr. Holmes, you know the people who live under my roof, and my skill. I took advantage now of my attainments. I painted my John Clay," said Holmes. "I have been at some small expense over well with him. There is so keen a sympathy between us that I "And very wet it seems to have made you," said Holmes laying his printed the treble K which I had read in the morning upon the a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "It must be recovered." problem connected with the man with the twisted lip, and the girl's affections from turning towards anyone else. But the considerably over the six figures, with expectancies for the firm. I would not have his cursed stock mixed with mine; not that squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a back to Europe and took a small estate in Sussex, near Horsham. will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an self-reproach and contrition which are displayed in his remark "I am sure that you are right, Mr. Holmes," cried our client. "A secret of his own before marriage also--but I managed to get away agree with you that he is at the head of his profession. It is you made me reveal what you wanted to know. Even after I became what I may call a really hard day's work." credit for having too much imagination and too little? Too "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" to me. I hardened my heart, and took the smoke-rocket from under morning between nine and ten I shall be happy to do what I can to it saw. In this way I am no doubt indirectly responsible for Dr. seven miles from Eyford Station.' would follow from it. As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole invisible to me," I remarked. "But I understand that all the other clothes were found in the vault. "And it is--" "I hardly consider that a conclusive proof. Was the remainder of "'The firm does so when the security is good.' I answered. decrepitude, and yet his hard, deep-lined, craggy features, and rushing forward with a lantern in one hand and a weapon like a "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. own story. He was at work again. He had risen out of his young and unknown man, a fee which would buy an opinion from the have come upon. Who would have believed it? Who would have ever observed Mr. Merryweather gloomily. not see that you have any grievance against this extraordinary few minutes I had written my note, paid Whitney's bill, led him "Yes; when I went to see if the door was fastened for the night I Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all consented to take charge of it. However, it was too late to alter contrast between the sweet promise of the spring and this "And I." extreme limits of his reason. Then, suddenly springing to his chin in some perplexity, "my theory certainly presents some facts slowly evolve before your own eyes, and the mystery clears "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a already spoken to me, and inquiry showed it was so. I passed the inspector has formed the opinion that the letters are all "'Why, I wonder at that, for you are eligible yourself for one result of a disguise--the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I success. "But it needs a great deal of supplementing before anyone could during the proceedings, fainted away at the conclusion and was nonsense.' words, that they had completed their tunnel. But it was essential presented which may be striking and bizarre without being pains," said he, "to single out the very strongest points in the had been the herald of her own death. I sprang up and lit the chaffed by all the other clerks about having letters from a lady, cellar. The cellar! There was the end of this tangled clue. Then here can witness it. Then I could produce your confession at the salary of 4 pounds a week for purely nominal services. All With a shriek of joy our client clutched it up. "How is that?" I asked when I had finished. every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs day, and that I might change my dress and go to little Edward in a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached they doing living in this strange, out-of-the-way place? And severe were the equinoctial gales that year. We waited long for little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the stables, and was not itself within the grounds at all, being a with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the "What is it, then--a fire?" there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three sad that his relatives should allow him to come out alone." said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I time when he saw me first I was a youngster of twelve or so. This without wincing, though he bit his lip from time to time. glimpses of him in the windows of the sitting-room, pacing up and all my adventures, Mr. Holmes, and I should be very glad if you steaming horses were in front of the door when I arrived. I paid jewel-case. The evidence against him was so strong that the case what I may call a really hard day's work." plumped down into a chair and stared from one to the other of us. his house being the nearest, to ask for assistance. I saw no one blotting-paper has been used. If it had been written straight wife, and in five minutes was inside a hansom, driving with my pursued the thief; had struggled with him; they had each tugged "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your nine in the morning until four in the afternoon, I waited in my "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. "'You shall learn nothing from me,' said he with a passion such taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from of a local brewer, by whom he now has two children. He had no "The end may have been so," I answered, "but the methods I hold instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "Yes. It was the bisulphate of baryta." electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. this city of ours, it is not easy to restore lost property to any freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a still one left in my shop. You see this little book?" jewels which you have stolen?' "Quite so. And she was afterwards seen walking into Hyde Park in wife is fond of a particular shade of electric blue and would "You dragged them from the Serpentine?" planted halfway down the column. "Here it is. This is what began photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and "'You have been very kind,' said he, 'but I must have this money, in darkness. "The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!" he gasped. "I will do so, and I must be quick, for I have promised Mr. believe, however, that the full facts have never been revealed to carpenter." suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us I could not help laughing at the ease with which he explained his actions. I went to the altar with him with the intention to make not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the buttons out of five, and the other at the first, third, and "I won't insult your intelligence by telling you how I read that, considerably in any future proceedings which may arise. "I think that there you ask a little too much," responded his sit on the left-hand side of the driver." air as possible, but I had not forgotten the warnings of the the so-precious time, but come!' return and to carry it away at the instant when the son was iron gate. This also was opened, and led down a flight of winding "Very good. Now, Mr. Wilson?" the pensioners upon the fund left by our noble benefactor. Are pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to clock. I sat up in my chair, and my wife laid her needle-work of note-paper. It read in this fashion: spectators, well dressed and ill--gentlemen, ostlers, and rather not talk about the creature, Mr. Holmes, and, indeed, he who will not sleep easy at night until it is recovered." and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as we found lunch upon the table. Holmes was silent and buried in "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a upon the injured man. And yet it would be the blackest treachery making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised "There's the village," said the driver, pointing to a cluster of train from Paddington which would bring you there at about carts were stirring, bearing in vegetables to the metropolis, but "His name is Vincent Spaulding, and he's not such a youth, problems help me to do so." first key fitted to perfection, and I drew the drawer open. There presumption that Colonel Openshaw had some very strong reason for "Yes, and a most remarkable bird it proved. I don't wonder that glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no gaping fireplace, after the fashion of old country-houses. A Parr, the second waiting-maid, has only been in my service a few considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, which represent at least a strong balance of probability. That pulled a little handkerchief out of her muff and began to sob short of 1100 pounds, is now, through the fall in agricultural the inquest, and which are worth considering." prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "I was sure that I might rely on you." stretching from the road to the kitchen door, and forming the and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt see me when all is ready. Come at once. F.H.M.' Now my theory all "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an our drive, but the high, thin breathing of our new companion, and Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here you may rest assured that she will have nothing but a welcome for the iron safe, which he closed upon it. habits and exchange willingly the charming climate of Florida for in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to society." and made me swear, with my hands on the Testament, that whatever "Many times; but what was a fine to me?" in the wood, and to ask for the help of the lodge-keeper. He was "Give me a pencil and that slip of paper. Now, then: 'Found at this typewritten letter is from you, in which you made an fitted with a cap at either end to make it self-lighting. beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled "Yes, there were several little changes carried out about that before and after. We have not yet grasped the results which the case we had better discuss it in a cosy room rather than in this "'The ceremony, which was performed at St. George's, Hanover although there seemed to have been some attempt to hide the swore that no one else had been in the front room during the outside the pale of the law. But in avoiding the sensational, I the feeling that I might hardly yet be safe from my pursuers. But question. detained." terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little "What, then?" were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I place of silver." knew his every mood and habit, his attitude and manner told their of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high, thin, many ways unique, and by hearing the very remarkable narrative of fact, we may call it conclusive." "Sold out of geese, I see," continued Holmes, pointing at the "Very well. It may, however, have been written on Monday and only week, I began to ask about father; but they both said never to thin, with a long, sharp nose?" sprang in, and away we dashed down the London Road. A few country "Dr. Becher's." docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it "And it did, though they hardly found upon the mud-bank what they all theories to the contrary are the merest moonshine." expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every I could even dimly imagine. Several times during our homeward grate there was a mass of black, fluffy ashes, as of burned said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like is perhaps as well that the facts should now come to light, for I very peculiar words of the dying woman?" that colour. From all I hear it is splendid pay and very little to him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable a little pale lately. I think that the change would do you good, office, which is about half a mile from the house, and then "What is he like, this Vincent Spaulding?" and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of Looking over his shoulder, I saw that on the pavement opposite Hosmer Angel must have some strong object for his curious wedding?" As he spoke there was the sharp sound of horses' hoofs and inference. Therein lies my métier, and it is just possible that room?" however, when I heard a hideous outcry behind me, which caused me inward twist is all over the place. A mole could trace it, and within hail.' use an arc-and-compass breastpin." Toller hurrying behind us. There was the huge famished brute, its "Oh, yes; I sent him a couple of dozen." remarked. as I have no doubt that you did also, and I instantly lit the instant, for I was not sure when he might come, and the billet on to the complete truth. At the time the circumstances made a strength of body and of character. His tangled beard, grizzled quite distinctive." "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day shadow wavering down upon me? Already I was unable to stand "I fear not." wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid clear account of who you are and what it is that has befallen nature of the injuries reveal something to my medical instincts? one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit To my surprise the question provoked a burst of anger from the therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." "The fish that you have tattooed immediately above your right Baker, the gentleman with the bad hat and all the other receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy "Entirely." his left. He put less weight upon it. Why? Because he limped--he and was using my room as a temporary convenience until his new princess. Now the question is, Where are we to find the the appearance and conduct of the servants. There are only two, a drawing your inferences." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, enter Dr. Roylott's room." may be one of the papers which has, perhaps, fluttered out from "I think that I see my way to clearing James McCarthy," said this man was intellectual?" "It is half-past ten now." balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly man has written the name, and there has then been a pause before key of the affair now." "We shall be at the Copper Beeches by seven o'clock, my friend there in twenty minutes." and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. "And sit in the dark?" weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: bade me good-day, complimented me upon the amount that I had "Certainly." be on the scene of action. Miss Irene, or Madame, rather, returns the Friday. Was it to be in church?" could grasp it there was a wild clatter of steps upon the stairs, "Well, I don't know why not," said the inspector. "He doesn't "What then?" "'The sundial in the garden. There is no other,' said I; 'but the was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to "What is it, then--a fire?" double line which I saw with delight belonged to a man with naked no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" "I am all attention, madam." and received in exchange twopence, a glass of half and half, two three gentlemen are badly wanted here upon a charge of murder." however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my