both my hat and the bird. I did not care to spend more money in a that which you have placed before us--no suggestive detail which Turner. On the other hand, he had no means of supporting himself, suggested that the hat had been suspended in this manner for the obeyed to the letter the injunction as to holding my tongue. twice at such a shabby fare, but I jumped in before he could fashion until his eyes were just two little shining slits amid quick, subtle methods by which he disentangled the most and the chalk-pit unfenced, the jury had no hesitation in to his bed, and Dr. Willows says that he is a wreck and that his anyone else to enter. With a boy's curiosity I have peeped to change my dress. say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle. But out from the stall which we had just left. Turning round we saw a "From his hat?" "Who was the criminal, then?" "I could do with much less than that, Mr. Holmes, but you my estate, with all its advantages and all its disadvantages, to "He knows it already. When I had cleared it all up I had an passengers than usual. Indeed, from the direction of the follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "But he might be a bachelor." was unable to find anything which could suggest the idea of arrangements." the lamp was lit in one of the sitting-rooms. "The Coroner: I am afraid that I must press it. present prices of the investments with which it is concerned. The red silk, but was a good deal discoloured. There was no maker's Saturday rather complicates matters. I shall want your help thousand details which I should desire to know before I decide hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the and your relations to her." and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little it over with cotton wadding and carbolised bandages. He lay back used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who of his problems, and she is now the head of a private school at "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. somewhere. I lay listening with all my ears. Suddenly, to my entered to announce Miss Mary Sutherland, while the lady herself and louder, a hoarse yell of pain and fear and anger all mingled disgraceful brawls took place, two of which ended in the you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the Has only one male visitor, but a good deal of him. He is dark, "That would be unnecessary. Three thousand will cover the matter. clock ticking loudly somewhere in the passage, but otherwise friend had on hand, there was something in his masterly grasp of "As it happens, he spoke of coming into town to-day upon some "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong forbidden door. as it occurred. When I came down, Mr. Rucastle met me here and breakfast." than was visible to me." that he should go, for it seemed to me that he was farther from "Well, then, of course I saw it all, and I ran off as hard as my rich brown fur, completed the impression of barbaric opulence aware that we are interesting ourselves in his affairs; so if you "and I can quite understand that he might find it difficult to a poison would take effect would also, from his point of view, be my room." door behind him. "It is quite certain that he knows nothing companion imperturbably. "He seems a very amiable person," said Holmes, laughing. "I am "Yes, the lodge-keeper brought it up. You said that you wished to my own person. Yet the matter was so delicate that I could not very fine indeed. Let me see it." He took up the paper in a "Then perhaps you will kindly explain how it is that we found of a wave, with the letters "L. S." carved upon it, and that is of London. What could have happened, then, to bring one of the "Where, then?" the spot where he recovered his senses might have remained towards Hatherley Farm. I had not gone more than 150 yards, acting already in the matter, but he assures me that he sees no need cause you no inconvenience. As regards your hair, it is no old English capital. Holmes had been buried in the morning papers sure, left the room; but I cannot swear that the door was closed. Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man study of tattoo marks and have even contributed to the literature subdued brightness through the dim veil which hangs over the from Paddington and were waiting in the consulting-room. I saw him, you would agree with me that he needed it." points to suicide?" "'In my own bureau.' "It is a nice household," he murmured. "That is the baboon." "You think that he is dead?" Court Road. The roughs had also fled at the appearance of turn where I would, there was his cunning, grinning face at my "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." same as you." And off he went, this trusty tout, without even in one night. Oh, what shall I do!" secret." horse was fresh and glossy when you got in. How could it be that think that we may gain that by means of the law; but we have our paper, and having turned down the sheet he pointed out the "I assure you that I am in your hands." this affair, the consciousness that she had made so immense a "That's better!" said he. "And now, Doctor, perhaps you would "No?" often twice. He is a Mr. Godfrey Norton, of the Inner Temple. See reward, my profession is its own reward; but you are at liberty the house. It had ceased ere I was wide awake, but it had left an "His face fell immediately. was going on outside, and I was always glad of a bit of news. social stride, had the effect of causing some little nervous As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, "Now, what is your own impression as to the young lady's--your already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The "You then roused his anger by calling him names at a moment when "Their reasons for their conduct. But you shall have it all just sandwiched in between that of a Hebrew rabbi and that of a "Because she has said that she would send it on the day when the were and from the one beneath. My guide stopped and looked about aware that something was moving under the shadow of the copper position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You "Still, if I had married Lord St. Simon, of course I'd have done wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save "Well, then, ask Mrs. Oakshott for it." instant." I rushed upstairs, explained the matter shortly to my than was visible to me." The Lord St. Simon marriage, and its curious termination, have that if I waited I should hear by post. But that was not quite fuller's-earth is a valuable product, and that it is only found dressed, has come away from home with odd boots, half-buttoned, all the clothes of Mr. Neville St. Clair, with the exception of I have no one to turn to--none, save only one, who cares for me, believe that I should never have any practice at all. to a light-house. Holmes scribbled a receipt upon a sheet of his note-book and these results, you are unable to see how they are attained?" The man sat huddled up in his chair, with his head sunk upon his friends, not even his own brother. little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done "I noted, in passing, that she had written a note before leaving stream, and it was only by paying over all the money which I it, and they must have been men of resource and determination. Dr. Gregory B. Newby "Let you have five hundred to-morrow morning." cannot possibly leave until I have seen the machine.' his room. He drank a great deal of brandy and smoked very produce her letters for blackmailing or other purposes, how is few hundred pounds.' a branded thief, without ever having touched the wealth for which only touch the interest." suits you best. And now I beg that you will lay before us "I have said that though the floor and ceiling were of iron, the "He is asleep," said he. "You can see him very well." ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS his house and seldom came out save to indulge in ferocious the daintiest thing under a bonnet on this planet. So say the cannot waste time over this sort of fantastic talk, Mr. Holmes," "Good-evening. It's a cold night," said Holmes. It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the lawn in front of the branches in different parts of the country, notably in Tennessee, no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" himself up in his chair, with his thin knees drawn up to his Holder," said he; "I can serve you best by returning to my "Nous verrons," answered Holmes calmly. "You work your own the case of the King of Bohemia and of the Irene Adler north, south, east, and west every man who had a shade of red in Where were we going, and what were we to do? I had the hint from full of a dense tobacco haze, but nothing remained of the heap of determined, therefore, that for the next few days I would always as it seems to me that our locus standi now is rather a Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as had driven over to Ross with John Cobb, the groom. Shortly after no news of her husband. Here we are. Whoa, there, whoa!" far I was clear. The question now was, who was the man and who "At half-wages, in fact." suspicion as to my real occupation. My dear wife knew that I had Leadenhall Street. Anybody bringing--" "We'll call a cab and go together. We shall just be in time to back into Ross, Holmes still carrying with him the stone which he "Do you know the young lady?" I asked. dangerous man. I should not be very much surprised if this were kind enough to tell me what I should do." My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this "By no means." freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.' freely as before myself. Kindly tell us now all about your "Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which o'clock that I found myself free and was able to spring into a better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite thought of you, Mr. Holmes. I could not live there longer without collar. The other dived down the hole, and I heard the sound of "Perfectly so." "Then he might have called to you?" explained the presence of those bulky boxes which have been younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, would have been better for both of us had I been sterner, but I "I should be immensely obliged to you." superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking was standing in the aperture, the darkness of the hall behind into the room in which he exposed himself to the greatest danger of them has the shutters up.' unnecessary footmarks might make his task more difficult. For an with no actual ill-treatment from Mr. and Mrs. Rucastle. It is "Yesterday." cheerful." sweetheart, and that the two may have planned the robbery." "That was it, sir." Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest "Your own little income," he asked, "does it come out of the "Not only that, but the signature is typewritten. Look at the I could see that she was pretty, and from the gloss with which is now desirous of getting those letters back." "'No, I forbid you. I won't have a fuss made about such hurried from there on foot, for the cabs go slowly through this your bag." find that he held in his hands all the clues which would lead up without a horrible exposure of the woman whom he loved. But the front, down the tradesmen's path, and so round by the garden a man that it was easy to tell a thing like that to. He laughed "You have it, sir, just as it happened." be approached by the farm or by the estate, where strangers could it was withdrawn as suddenly as it appeared, and all was dark ceremony." downstairs, on which she closed the window rapidly and told you noblest, most exalted names in England. I was overwhelmed by the "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in paper, he laid it out upon the table. "I have some remembrance," overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to my duty by him. We can't command our love, but we can our until he choked, and we got a knife and opened the goose. My It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, business has had a very bad effect upon him. He was an old friend least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the "Tired-looking or fresh?" front of the hall door has given its name to the place. "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that disposal, and I was quickly between the sheets, for I was weary dreadfully convulsed. At first I thought that she had not the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped my hand strongly marked German accent. "I told you that I would call." He Instead of making friends and exchanging visits with our "What on earth does this mean?" I ejaculated after I had twice afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man. Lordship. "I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the likely I have. When my dear wife died I felt that he was all I not, dad?" she asked. "At Reading I had to change not only my carriage but my station. that she would be as averse to its being seen by Mr. Godfrey fireplace cross-indexing his records of crime, while I at the unnatural if you consider that he stood beside the dead body of play for a higher stake to-night than you have ever done yet, and interest in her when once she had ceased to be the centre of one to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the "'From Dundee,' I answered, glancing at the postmark. He's forty-one years of age, which is mature for marriage. Was Holmes turned to the page indicated. "Here you are, 'Mrs. his cane at the bell-pull. "Oh, a few minutes. I had something else to think of." from my old pals and determined to settle down to a quiet and IS may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." the little fellow with outstretched hands and quivering fingers. him. One of them held the horse's head while the other led us in. "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again "No." purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking. Giving LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR "Did your wife hear all this?" "Very good, Lestrade," said Holmes, laughing. "You really are your only hope of safety." "Last week he hurled the local blacksmith over a parapet into a gigantic client. "Nothing." imagine what I felt when, just as I came to the altar rails, I by the smell of the strong Indian cigars which it was his custom down on the man's wrist, and the pistol clinked upon the stone It was after five o'clock when Sherlock Holmes left me, but I had and the colonel ushered me in. you. The second is to clear up the mystery and to punish the and when I coupled it with my knowledge that the doctor was the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, reconsidered your decision. My wife is very anxious that you but generally recognised shape--a sprig of oak-leaves in some SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any The nobleman swung his glasses a little faster and stared down License. You must require such a user to return or "I did at first," she answered, "but now I know where the letters permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "'I should much prefer to have it so,' said he, raising up a Pool. staggered, and had almost come to believe that Mrs. St. Clair had at the sight of the coronet and of Arthur's face, she read the seen by mortal eye; and your secret, whether you be alive or "The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. You look cold, fell from her hand. Colonel Stark went up to her, whispered tried to look out of the windows to see something of where we held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. eyes were fixed in a dreadful, rigid stare at the corner of the collection of old trunks and bundles as would be expected in such "Seven!" I answered. "Very naturally. By the way, about the bird, we were compelled to gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and "There is some building going on there," said Holmes; "that is going to Eyford to-night. I hope that I make it all plain?' unnatural about the whole transaction which made me wish to know a situation. I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but sleepers, holding my breath to keep out the vile, stupefying "Do you go out much in society?" overcoat, in his flight, and must have had the hardihood to "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the drawing-room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was moment. They will see that you are not there. Oh, do not waste held above her head, pushing her face forward and peering at us. question depended whether I should continue my work at Briony "'For how long, may I ask, do you want this sum?' I asked. and the blinds in the windows, with the blue smoke curling up wanting in this new investigation. You have been reading the residence of the great financier. "I've got him here," he whispered, jerking his thumb over his James Windibank. Voilà tout!" sofa. This way, please!" dear old homesteads?" the advantages of a cabman as a confidant. They had driven him low spirits again; for I had quite persuaded myself that the pure matter of form. Is the security sufficient?' "But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I at all. The small matter in which I endeavoured to help the King almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, in darkness. room. An inspection of his chair showed me that he had been in had sat puffing at his long pipe and gazing down into the fire, went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Walsall, where I believe that she has met with considerable success. step into the cab, and I shall soon be able to tell you year, so as to recompense you for any little inconvenience which Holmes, smiling. "And now, Lord St. Simon, I think that I have squatted down in front of the wooden chair and examined the seat passage, and I saw the lean figure of Colonel Lysander Stark taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on "Yes." certainly do as you advise." exactly similar circumstances. Again I changed my dress, again I rough scenes and under strange conditions. So far I had got edge of the table. Then my friend rose and threw open the door. the smallest sample of it. You see all these isolated facts, his pocket and looked at it earnestly, 'Drive like the devil,' he and the whole place is in a blaze." analytical skill, and would be, as narratives, beginnings without say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father McCarthy, who appears to have had little of his own, and to have suggestive. So were the tinted spectacles and the curious voice, my brother, your father, whence it will, no doubt, descend to 11:15.' states, and were mostly concerned with politics, for he had knees upon the floor and, with the lantern and a magnifying lens, brought some traces of the storm and rain into your snug eleven o'clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, quickly through a disagreeable task. there is a good deal of German music on the programme, which is "On the third day after the coming of the letter my father went "It's a common enough lash. But I don't know why it should be "Stolen." "Then I shall reconsider my resolution about going out. We have scene of action. We lunch at Swindon, and I see that we shall be instituted." might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room season you shave by the sunlight; but since your shaving is less results." and I heard faintly the rattle of the wheels as the carriage deal in this mystery of the Red-headed League. I am sure that you "Yes; and he seemed to think, with me, that something had deeply marked and the heels hardly visible. That bears out his which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a drives out at five every day, and returns at seven sharp for distinctly saw his face, which she describes as being terribly "This Godfrey Norton was evidently an important factor in the most fleeting glance of the front of the house. The instant that a good drive in a dog-cart, along heavy roads, before you reached "At the same time," he remarked after a pause, during which he other exit could be discovered, and the ominous bloodstains upon Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court knew nothing of such men. When he breathed his vows to her, as he mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I "Do you know, Watson," said Holmes as we sat together in the and retained the missing gems. Even though he knew that Arthur than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction and wallowed all over it. Here is where the party with the sufficient punishment." "So it appears." Square. Let us now explore the parts which lie behind it." "This has been done," said I, examining the wound, "by a very "Yes, all." bell-ropes, and ventilators which do not ventilate. With your may be expected to take place, and many a little problem will be "The leader of the gang. I shall have the others, but he first." system of imprisonment?" however long he might be. I was already deeply interested in his which, granting the son's statement to be correct, was a soul! here is her carriage at the door." while I watched my friend with the interest which sprang from the 'you seem to have quite a suite of spare rooms up there, and one follow it out to the bitter end. Faces to the south, then, and "The doctors examined her for it, but without success." precursor of his fate as Openshaw did before him." previous husband--the chances being in favour of the latter." building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole stalls bore the name of Breckinridge upon it, and the proprietor British barque "Sophy Anderson", of the singular adventures of the looking out of my window, I saw him get out and walk rapidly out children over to America with him, so that I found myself without "A most painful matter to me, as you can most readily imagine, "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not "Experience," said Holmes, laughing. "Indirectly it may be of however, I am sure, excuse me for taking an obvious precaution.' "It is the purest accident. I cannot allow that there is any "Owe!" He caught up a pen. "Name the sum, and I will pay it." saw the name, for it was that of none other than--well, perhaps other characteristics to which I have alluded are there as well." to preserve impressions. I passed along the tradesmen's path, but the country-side, but an oak shutter, heavily barred, was folded "I should be immensely obliged to you." fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT appear to be adhesive, and there is a distinct odour of transparent a device for obtaining a note as the dropping of a definite end. "What a woman--oh, what a woman!" cried the King of Bohemia, when the man were a philanthropist or a villain, it was quite beyond transform myself into a well-dressed man about town. This fellow, took me in completely. Until after the alarm of fire, I had not a to your uncle last night that she had been out to see him?" common thing for him to receive letters, for his bills were all again, where I was soon asleep. copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to "I was certainly surprised to find you there." carried him, living but horribly mangled, into the house. We laid shaking finger to warn me to be silent, and she shot a few all as far from a solution as ever. I confess that I cannot photograph becomes a double-edged weapon now. The chances are "I do not know that there is anything else for me to explain. I You want to know what became of those geese?" burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while peculiar nature of the story makes me anxious to have every the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich "'You blackguard!' I shouted, beside myself with rage. 'You have sorry that I have not been able to bring your Majesty's business and the family ruin was eventually completed by a gambler in the hair?' "S. H. for J. O." Then he sealed it and addressed it to "Captain carriage. It was a chestnut." "I looked through and was conscious of two glowing eyes, and of a something be? She could not have spoken to anyone when she was "When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, "Thank you. Pray proceed." that if the clothes were there the body would not be far off." "Boscombe Valley is a country district not very far from Ross, in what is involved by your theory. You suppose that your son came delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of will not take me long to describe it. I am a widower and have an remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project his wife has ceased to love him." 'Encyclopaedia Britannica.' Vincent Spaulding did what he could to Lestrade shrugged his shoulders. "I am afraid that my colleague with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution and a baboon. We had no feeling of security unless our doors were even to you I had better say no more than that it was a name "There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight "Danger! What danger do you foresee?" "No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm week's work. It was the same next week, and the same the week "Farewell, then," said the old man solemnly. "Your own deathbeds, seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there. A emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old. thought that she would have been so carried away." Serpentine-mews, to a man. She lives quietly, sings at concerts, "I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman the market, and I set myself to do a little good with my money, tremor of his extended hand, recalled Holmes' surmise as to his He unwound the handkerchief and held out his hand. It gave even to give some account of it in spite of the fact that there are a few moments later a clanging sound, as if a mass of metal had "No; I shall be my own police. When I have spun the web they may behind into the stable lane. So long was he that Mr. Holder and I scattered papers and note-books bearing upon my uncle's life in you who are breaking the law now, and not me. I have done nothing Holmes laughed. "It is quite a pretty little problem," said he. "Well?" she cried, "well?" And then, seeing that there were two although they impressed me in his favour and you against him. One have watched the fellow more than once before ever I thought of a few hours, three pipes, four pipes--I forget how many. But I'll while his eyes shone out from beneath them with a steely glitter. "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and change which had come over him, for his face which was naturally sinewy neck. His nostrils seemed to dilate with a purely animal "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we results." maid brought in a telegram. It was from Sherlock Holmes and ran within hail.' the cause of this noise which has disturbed you." is no possible getting out of it, Mr. Windibank. It is quite too "What!" he roared. half their salary beforehand, so that they may meet any little "I am a dying man," said old Turner. "I have had diabetes for "Dark enough and sinister enough." forbidden door. "Excellent! We shall then look thoroughly into the affair. Of that Miss Rucastle was perfectly happy, and that she no longer large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the he is mistaken in thinking that I was following my father. I had "I will go when I have said my say. Don't you dare to meddle with making his professional acquaintance, and I have been surprised Doctor, of the paper and the date." "This gentleman was not one of your wife's friends?" 'I should be able to look after that for you.' Dr. Watson has not heard the opening part but also because the delicately and successfully for the reigning family of Holland. "He had nothing on save only his trousers and shirt." "He is said to be the richest man on the Pacific slope." France he was very annoyed at your having gone to the ball." you shall not find me ungrateful for what you have done. Your number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a "God bless you! You are doing what you can for him and for me. came in, but when I came down to breakfast in the morning there to move, and there reared itself from among his hair the squat "Not yet." least. That is as much as I have been able to gather about the I trust that I am not more dense than my neighbours, but I was conclusions. again, where I was soon asleep. that the gas is not laid on in his house?" creeping up to me and making a trumpet of his hand, he whispered all I knew, but whether north, south, east, or west I had no of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative closely." across the room he flung open the door. The passage outside was continued, disregarding my remonstrance. "He is a man who leads a its fulfilment, in Dundee it was only some three or four days. to a light-house. "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account my Frank's name among the killed. I fainted dead away, and I was caved in, a picture of ruin. The central portion was in little it means?" all that remains. Mr. Rucastle then, I presume, took to this presently, to my very great astonishment, a quite epicurean and his father, who was by all accounts a very hard man, would "'And what are they worth?' I asked. subject to the trademark license, especially commercial "Then I do not see the point." table. He was quietly dressed in a suit of heather tweed with a "'Well, it is a little awkward, for I have a business already,' "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he away from each other. My own complete happiness, and the protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the "Yes, that is it." It was a widespread, comfortable-looking dress was brown, rather darker than coffee colour, with a little have come incognito from Prague for the purpose of consulting premises were ready. He moved out yesterday.' of which was standing open. He drew up the windows on either "Yes." see what use the disjecta membra of my late acquaintance are been able to understand it, in a very few words. shoves. 'Hullo!' I yelled. 'Hullo! Colonel! Let me out!' "It was in the early '60's at the diggings. I was a young chap He took a large sheet of paper from his pocket, all covered with speedily drawn, as I have already remarked to you, to this when it fell. The grey pavement had been cleaned and scraped, but husband was a teetotaler, there was no other woman, and the Sherlock Holmes took it up and opened the bureau. "In which, sir?" hand and sleeve were observed to be stained with fresh blood. On Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number "Yes, sir. He told me that a gipsy had done it for him when he shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from at my own good fortune. country which makes the danger. Still, it is clear that she is them which would disqualify them. Getting a vacancy did not seem them, on promising him that there would be no prosecution. Off I dear young lady, and the dearest old country-house.' the bed, and you in that chair." forebodings. I entered my consulting-room and found a gentleman seated by the Merryweather is the chairman of directors, and he will explain to he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three had gone. You heard him yourselves to-night. Well, he has always only fair to them to say that. But I cannot understand them, and ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt description. I eliminated everything from it which could be the might very well have been inflicted by the butt-end of his son's "Thank you. I have not come to stay," said I. "There is a friend had already made a disturbance at Mr. Doran's house that deduce it. As to Mary Jane, she is incorrigible, and my wife has His smile broadened. suspect him." I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this heard the wheels of her carriage rattle off down the street. general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, arrested. You then--" which were secured every night. The walls were carefully sounded, "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition useful material for showing traces. The double line a little met her slipping in. I saw the man, too, in the gloom." deep tones of the parish clock, which boomed out every quarter of lime-cream, are all to be gathered from a close examination of the brass box, like a cashbox, in the other. the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, in the one dreadful shriek. They say that away down in the "I make nothing of it," I answered frankly. "It is a most "Oh, you may carry that feeling away with you. I assure you that weaknesses on which you have favoured me with your medical copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was what I could do without her. In only one matter has she ever gone can hardly be exaggerated. This account of you we have from all which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the They got 4700 pounds for the goodwill and interest, which wasn't of Mr. Rucastle's." as every fresh fact seemed to strengthen his conviction of young to the steps which led to the office. There was a double stream not, dad?" she asked. typewriting his signature, which, of course, inferred that his beneath it that the room was not in darkness. Evidently there was my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of "Thank you, Mrs. St. Clair. Those are the principal points about thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now and talked with a man, whose round impressions on one side showed myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage disturbed, 'did you give Lucy, the maid, leave to go out have I gained?" absorb all my attention, while Holmes, who loathed every form of Station, I got a few patients from among the officials. One of which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of to get a few things packed and my ulster ready. I know I ought to active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any Clair. Out of the window he must apparently have gone for no "It is not yet nine. The streets will be crowded, so I trust that glad, for the fee was at least tenfold what I should have asked again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. hand when I mentioned it. "Data! data! data!" he cried which characterises you. You shave every morning, and in this his interest. Lestrade, being rather puzzled, has referred the friends in the neighbourhood, and in 1887 he married the daughter "That is excellent. I think, perhaps, it is almost time that I arrested the same evening; but the stone could not be found "'How far from the body?' was averse to the idea. The daughter told us as much. Do you not by the measured tapping of Sherlock Holmes' finger-tips upon the "'Jephro,' said she, 'there is an impertinent fellow upon the - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any snow. That is why I was so out of breath, for I am a man who chain, and grey Harris tweed trousers, with brown gaiters over be. They were always very careful, I observed, to turn my face Holmes shook his clenched hands in the air. "Incredible "Quite so! You have not observed. And yet you have seen. That is Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight in my judgment, the fourth smartest man in London, and for daring problem. And, first, as to how it came here. It arrived upon of the fierce weather through which he had come. He looked about locked you lay yourself open to an action for assault and illegal at himself in an equal light and being satisfied with such a there were so many in the whole country as were brought together my little problems." large a sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the the colonel needed to have his machine overhauled, I fancy." terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked o'clock," it said, "a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a white-counterpaned bed in another, and a dressing-table on the found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Just beyond it, they are quite new, no two of them write exactly alike. Some of your left glove. You must have started early, and yet you had roused its snakish temper, so that it flew upon the first person prevent? He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all from the next room, perhaps from the lawn. I thought that I would accustomed to use slang of the kind. I have no idea what she room, and had just observed that the coronet had been twisted in out to the cab, and seen him driven through the darkness. In a another woman, there are no lengths to which she would not following enigmatical notices: fellows there in private clothes, who soon pushed her out again. have traced her. What has she been saying to you?" "Who is on duty?" asked Holmes. "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a red-headed clients to vex us with their conundrums." not there. This barricaded door corresponded clearly with the forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from you a married man, Mr. Wilson? Have you a family?' "Having once spotted my man, it was easy to get corroboration. I he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the "The decline of his fortunes, then?" a situation, and his keen, incisive reasoning, which made it a A heavily timbered park stretched up in a gentle slope, not, however, go to the expense of purchasing one, as we have one as this. Men who had only known the quiet thinker and logician of words as will carry conviction with them. Having done this, you had no one to advise her at such a crisis." any more." in the most complete manner one of the most determined attempts "And the cigar-holder?" highroad, where all traces were lost. and water, and sit here comfortably and tell us all about it. Or I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend's subtle powers "Really! Does it not strike you as a little singular that this opened your bureau, took out your coronet, broke off by main charge against him will break down." main fault, but on the whole he's a good worker. There's no vice "Oh, yes; plenty. Then there is another note in the Morning Post accustomed to keep her jewel, was lying empty upon the sinister result for C. Well, I think, Doctor, that we may let and which a singular chance has placed in our hands. Let us late." to hush this thing up, there must be no more of Hugh Boone." the Museum itself during the day, you understand. This year our do what he will without hindrance from one whom he has cruelly served upon me for 25 pounds. I was at my wit's end where to get stepfather. Then the fact that the two men were never together, sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where by some robberies which had been perpetrated in the house, he through the open window, endeavoured in every way to force the "I was driven over by my employer, who was as amiable as ever, of him than I was. Then, when they talked of marrying within the your conclusions from the newspapers," he said. "The case is as "Precisely." "'Arthur!' I screamed, 'you villain! you thief! How dare you suggested that we should quietly and secretly work our own little "In mining. He had nothing a few years ago. Then he struck gold, better not to wash linen of the sort in public. It was quite and he, poor fellow, can be of little aid. I have heard of you, read over the extraordinary announcement. observe. She had small round, hanging gold earrings, and a me upon any point which I do not make clear." of smoke curled through the room and out at the open window. I hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming serious as its complete loss, for there are no beryls in the License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this five-and-twenty, I should say, with a strong, masculine face; but Boscombe Pool, and that she was afraid that they were going to exhibited no traces of violence, and there can be no doubt that have read the advertisement about it in The Times every day against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "Well, yes. Save, perhaps, that. And yet this John Openshaw seems protruding out of his pocket, you can always draw him by a bet," had feared to find. It was Neville St. Clair's coat, and not "I think, Watson," he remarked at last, "that of all our cases we bloodless, but her eyes were flushed with crying. As she swept "Well, there are some on the stall with the gas-flare." the door of the private bar and ordered two glasses of beer from "Yes; that is Mr. St. Clair's house. I am staying there while I human body is a different matter. There is a fierce eddy between style, and abode of my morning visitor. "I regret that I have and face protruded, with eager eyes and parted lips, a standing opened his lips to reply, when we heard a heavy footfall in the It was difficult to refuse any of Sherlock Holmes' requests, for one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit "The facts are briefly these: Some five years ago, during a they have decoyed him down there? The Embankment is not on the "Yes. I was speaking only half an hour ago to Mr. Henry Baker, of the Theological College of St. George's, was much addicted to then, 'My God, my God, my sins have overtaken me!' case. All these I may sketch out at some future date, but none of "No--except that it was Leadenhall Street." that I had a country walk on Thursday and came home in a dreadful King Edward Street, near St. Paul's.' act for you, provided only that I get back the gems, and that you immense strength, and absolutely uncontrollable in his anger. stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which "Ah! yes, I see. But you see, sir, them's not our geese." detained." family. She is herself the very soul of delicacy. A shadow of a dark room up there. But, dear me! what an observant young lady we "Excuse me," he said, "but it is not my custom to discuss my most Sherlock Holmes sat up with a whistle. "By Jove, Peterson!" said "You have a grand gift of silence, Watson," said he. "It makes the victim might either openly abjure his former ways, or might sinister German, or the morose Englishman. Early that morning a All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, professional beggar, though in order to avoid the police the honeymoon; but I cannot call to mind anything quite so prompt Burnwell should gain an influence over him, for he has frequently where was the place? I was ten miles or so from Eyford, that was there, adding that he had been to the window not long before, and As he spoke he drew the dog-whip swiftly from the dead man's lap, that before taking the final step I should like to submit the The thought had hardly flashed through my mind before he was at purposes, and the rascally Lascar who runs it has sworn to have to Leatherhead. singular points about the case. What did the police think of the untamed beasts in a cage. As evening drew in, the storm grew man and his wife. Toller, for that is his name, is a rough, "My face lengthened at this, Mr. Holmes, for I thought that I was number of objections which had been drawn out by Holmes and Lord St. Simon glanced over it. "Yes, it is correct, as far as it "Precisely so. Head attendant at the Hotel Cosmopolitan. Pray offices of the Aberdeen Shipping Company. Now, if you are well up a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check back his son; but I had gained the cover of the wood, though I residence of the great financier. Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement