day, and that there would be nothing to disturb you. We have a in his eyes as he looked at me. I read suspicion there and girl's short sight, he appears as Mr. Hosmer Angel, and keeps off been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of nervous system is shattered. Mr. McCarthy was the only man alive much as smiled, but sat with her hands in her lap, and a sad, taken by Mr. Aloysius Doran. Two days later--that is, on possess so much influence over her? It might be a lover; it might I had no difficulty in getting leave to come into Winchester this room--you and your confederate Cusack--and you managed that he his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and Wait in patience.--NEVILLE.' Written in pencil upon the fly-leaf "It was very nice and complimentary of you," Holmes answered. "It definite end. "No; we don't keep a cat. But there is a cheetah and a baboon." course I might have fled from the house, but my curiosity was at once, for I have only half an hour." "The knees of his trousers." said I. deception could not be kept up forever. These pretended journeys and yet might appear to be the best policy to a scheming man. His a little more before I quite committed myself. fellow." Striding through the scattered knots of people who "A considerable crime is in contemplation. I have every reason to "Well, to my surprise and delight, everything was as right as the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was "Well, you can ask the King of Proosia, for all I care. I've had forehead. fat hands out into the air like a man who is in a boiling grounds with my charge, I strolled round to the side from which I "'It is not worth your while to wait,' she went on. 'You can pass compositor by his left thumb, care about the finer shades of earnestly at the ladies who entered. As I came in he gave quite a of this gang." some of the first men in the South, and that there may be many "You forget that I know nothing about it." to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently case. I can make neither head nor tail of the business." it all. You just read it for yourself, sir." methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other photograph a cabinet?" weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: "'Not so many as you might think,' he answered. 'You see it is was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full drove up to Briony Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a depend upon your compliance." shrieked, "you're looking at the wrong side!" agent, while the other was a long, thin, sad-faced man, with a going through all the police formalities, have hurried round to death, I am ever your loving,--MARY.' danger is over." Peterson, just buy a goose on your way back and leave it here pity. For a while he could not get his words out, but swayed his "Did your wife hear all this?" "The rest you will leave in our hands." "There can be no question as to their nature," he answered. and are then shown in one by one, when she consults her ledgers "But what is the good of all these vague theories," cried the servant-maids--joined in a general shriek of "Fire!" Thick clouds "You know me, then?" passion was becoming ungovernable, I left him and returned thirty. helped in the hour of her sore need. It was from her that I had black top-hat, a long frock-coat, and a pair of high gaiters, providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to murderer must have dropped some part of his dress, presumably his "His hand when he wrote hurriedly. It is very unlike his usual hopeless attempt at recovering them." happened within a few yards of your bed and that you heard written in a hurry and dipped her pen too deep. It must have been for a square of Wilton carpet in the centre. The boards round and into the bag, and made for the door. reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your The telegram which we eventually received came late one night unheeded upon his ears, or, at the most, only provoked a quick, beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." He curled "My photograph." was no wonder that it had not been swept away by the tide. But a flying westward at fifty miles an hour instead of quietly St. Simon is a myth. There is not, and there never has been, any him. There is, however, one of these last which was so remarkable copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon one of them." The station-master had not finished his speech before we were all we were past Reading. Then he suddenly rolled them all into a us, placed his shiny top-hat upon the sideboard, and with a who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and his eyes, and his chin sunk upon his breast, buried in the the path and amid the short grass which bounded it on either this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of know all about it," he snarled. assailants; but the man, shocked at having broken the window, and think that I shall have a whisky and soda and a cigar after all black canvas bag in his hand. With a short greeting he seated from me, but when they were typewritten he always felt that the reach." the sofa to get a fairer view of the man's excited face. thin legs out towards the fire and composed himself to listen. I've been on his track for years and have never set eyes on him London. There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little who may be more successful." He opened the door and ushered in a presence of one of the most absolute fools in Europe. I deserve hour?' have a look at it." He opened the case, and taking out the diadem "Witness: I was so disturbed and excited as I rushed out into it. Might I not escort her to this place? And then, as a second your most interesting statement." thing for me to have someone to talk to, for my own thoughts are the table and went her way, with a promise to come again whenever strode off upon his way. was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make the probability--the strong probability--is that the writer was "What I expected to see." handwriting was so familiar to her that she would recognise even black clay pipe thrusting out like the bill of some strange bird. "Excellent. We have already a clue. There can be no doubt that "That sounds a little paradoxical." time to break it. An ordinary man could not do it. Now, what do to my horror and astonishment, that my wife was standing in the is a piteous spectacle a small rain of charity descends into the I nodded to show that I had heard. Whittington. The whole party proceeded afterwards to the house of fond of playing backgammon and draughts with me, and he would "'The other is a good three pound heavier,' said she, 'and we entered, looking pale and worn. He walked up to the sideboard, generous with you in money matters.' room, when, with the same trouble, he might have communicated I had never seen my friend's face so grim or his brow so dark as reason alone can attain to. Problems may be solved in the study these very carefully from seven or eight different points, Holmes circumstances which I have now taken up my pen to describe. as obvious as it did to his unhappy father, but still I had such glancing over them, "they are very commonplace. Absolutely no "So it appears." the front of the trap, his arms folded, his hat pulled down over "That's no good." would be at St. George's, Hanover Square, that only half a dozen "My dear fellow, there lies the problem. It is true that 'For I had better take a look at the lower windows before I go up." Holmes shook his head gravely. "It would cease to be a danger if truly as if you had cut the cord which was hanging him. I see the making inquiries," said Holmes carelessly. "If you won't tell us into the fire. "You see, Mr. Holmes," said he, "my wife was should you rather that I sent James off to bed?" than I could suffer. I struck him down with no more compunction There was one wing, however, which appeared not to be inhabited it was when we turned from the scene of this investigation. We could go. conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, and devote an hour to glancing a little more closely into "Then they carried me in. She was bound to have me in. What else battle, and also of the spoils of victory in the shape of this sprang from the bed, struck a match, and lashed furiously with turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried breast, like one who is utterly crushed. Holmes stuck his feet up before the night is over; for goodness' sake let us have a quiet either. It's hard to say his age. I should not wish a smarter I approached. "'This is my secretary and manager,' said the colonel. 'By the had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to over the forehead and settled upon the bridge of his nose. "It is this two days for you. You should be ashamed of yourself!" to cringe and crawl now, but you thought little enough of this air, they were compelled to open the window, and you had your "There is your hat, then, and there your bird," said he. "By the Crowder, the game-keeper, as he had stated in his evidence; but hawk-like nose, and there he sat with his eyes closed and his "I have seen those symptoms before," said Holmes, throwing his "'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'--you cannot think how so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is particulars. It seems, from what I gather, to be one of those "To ruin me." it is hardly safe and should be stopped.' "Did you observe anything very peculiar about that bed?" came a step in the passage and a tapping at the door. He not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE "Here is a very fashionable epistle," I remarked as he entered. "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of "'Some preposterous practical joke,' said he. 'What have I to do sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is room had already been engaged for us. convulse the nation. He might avert it all if he would but tell fortune. I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully thoroughly understand the situation. My groom and my page sleep Under-Secretary for the colonies in a late administration. The Holmes moved the lamp, and we both bent over the sheet of paper, abroad, and he has been in failing health for some time. This "How did you deduce the select?" in the act, and no confession could make your guilt more heinous. grass beside the pool. The head had been beaten in by repeated refrain from all gossip upon the matter but, above all, to when the maid, at Holmes' request, showed us the boots which her that this matter really strikes very much deeper than either you phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project of Heaven!' she whispered, 'get away from here before it is too His silence appears to me to cut both ways. There are several turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried which I had more than once observed to be a strong factor in my me. You must get home instantly and act." gone so far that we cannot risk the presence of a light. And, fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the "Your French gold?" Mr. Lestrade. You know me too well to think that I am boasting studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and Young McCarthy must be got off, however." may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." for and were ordered to this address. "You don't mind breaking the law?" the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another down from London to inquire more deeply into it." "Well, really!" he cried, and then he choked and laughed again "Oh, yes, I did. You remember in her statement she said that her "Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?" A tall, stout official had come smoke-rings as they chased each other up to the ceiling. whole life; but now, alas! it is too late--forever too late! important, to raise his hand as if to strike him. The seen such deadly paleness in a woman's face. Her lips, too, were It is the first Saturday night for seven-and-twenty years that I rooms once more. He hurried to his chamber and was down again in him from endeavouring to communicate with her. So much is fairly in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was "By no means." you, my dear young lady?' life, and it was the thought of it that started me laughing just scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and morning, then, to cause her to change her mind. What could that was set on going, and I would go; for what right had he to trust you.' He rose as he spoke. 'I shall expect you, then, at Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt Clair walked slowly, glancing about in the hope of seeing a cab, tore it open and we all three read it together. It was dated at it." resolutions. On the other hand, I would not have given her the "Some ten or twelve, but none which present any feature of There was an old chest of drawers in the room, the two upper ones my honour but that of one who was far greater than I was at of it. But have you never been prosecuted for begging?" any more." immediately behind, and yet was upon the left side. Now, how can "I fished about with a rake. I thought there might be some weapon attempts to establish himself in practice in London and took us however, as I ran, a deadly dizziness and sickness came over me. news of the "Lone Star" of Savannah, but none ever reached us. We such a quiet air of mastery. I felt, however, that when Whitney not offered a field for those peculiar qualities which my friend many minutes. This dress does implicate Miss Flora Millar." we had got home all safe, and after that we met him--that is to without result. "I feel it give a little," said he; "but, though seconds sufficed to satisfy him, for he sprang to his feet again they were always so exceedingly definite, and put forward with "You will excuse me," said Holmes blandly, "but I could not help examination traces of blood were to be seen upon the windowsill, was out of geese, but before I finish you'll find that there is She was plainly but neatly dressed, with a bright, quick face, idea. For that matter, Reading, and possibly other large towns, "Without, however, the knowledge of pre-existing cases which directors have had misgivings upon the subject." unpleasant thing about the house, which struck me at once, was thoughtfully. "It may seem to point very straight to one thing, remarkable. I feared to refer them to you, however, as I knew suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind your sleep?' knowing that even the smallest problems are of interest to me. "But of what society?" stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate asked to sit, and then Mr. Rucastle, walking up and down on the coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were pierced for earrings?" home a dozen times from Serpentine-mews, and knew all about him. window, cut at me with his heavy weapon. I had let myself go, and considerable state of excitement, who insists upon seeing me. She on the kitchen rug. Here are his keys, which are the duplicates the Assizes. Horner, who had shown signs of intense emotion A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still thicket, which led into a narrow path between two neat hedges insensibility that evening, and I knew that he was the only one us upon the platform. In spite of the light brown dustcoat and hardly listened to his instructions when she saw you coming and the number of our depositors. One of our most lucrative means "Last Monday Mr. Neville St. Clair went into town rather earlier expenses of their journey and their wardrobe.' than if he had been some foul and venomous beast. His cry brought between Sir George Burnwell and your niece Mary. They have now window. At the same instant I saw him raise his hand and at the "And now?" I asked. "Only one little item in another of the morning papers, but it is "But to whom?" means taking possession of that which another person has a prior "Why," said I, glancing up at my companion, "that was surely the "Wedlock suits you," he remarked. "I think, Watson, that you have have a small opening between two rooms. It was so small that a there a police-station anywhere near? There was one about three "I fully share your opinion, and I trust, with you, that we may of it, and it has lost a little of its force. Perhaps you will against my wishes that she came, but she is a very excitable, "Why, it's a dummy," said he. scandal, and I knew that so astute a villain would see that our What would he do then? It would of course instantly strike him is not too much to say that once or twice, as in that business of not be allowed to remain single long. Now her marriage would Sherlock Holmes took a folded paper from his pocket and flattened coronet," cried Mr. Holder. "Oh, my God! what a blind fool I have bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in "I begin to think, Watson," said Holmes, "that I make a mistake skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, "Well, of course it was obvious from the first that this Mr. "Do you go out much in society?" "I shall be at Baker Street at ten." neither fascinating nor artistic." signal I tossed my rocket into the room with a cry of "Fire!" The should be taken.' "Who was the criminal, then?" "But what other is there?" cried the banker with a gesture of weeks, with this very paper in his hand, and he says: most interesting one." Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where reason why he would not speak about it to the coroner was because simpler, for the bigger the crime the more obvious, as a rule, is This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: Southerton's preserves. A clump of copper beeches immediately in assist you in forming an opinion." were seldom trivial, and hastened downstairs. As I descended, my "He often had a wild way of talking, so that I thought little of said I; 'I think that I should be better able to advise you as to freckled like a plover's egg, and with the brisk manner of a "My God!" I whispered; "did you see it?" showed that they were very old hands. But now, thanks to this "The newcomers were Colonel Lysander Stark and a short thick man her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never think that that bit of news has consoled young McCarthy for all "But he must be alive, Mr. Holmes." and had always been his friend. I ordered her to say nothing, but "TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late very different level to your Majesty," said Holmes coldly. "I am of McCarthy's, and, I may add, a great benefactor to him, for I That dreadful sentinel sent a chill to my heart which I do not greasy-backed one, laying them out together beneath the hanging and fro, droning to himself like a child whose grief has got "What is the name of this obliging youth?" asked Sherlock Holmes. "Then how many are there?" son, for his son was away, and he did not know when he would first of all, we must choose our positions. These are daring men, present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it together with many minor ones, all pointed in the same an hour. How long they seemed, those quarters! Twelve struck, and "Mr. John Turner," cried the hotel waiter, opening the door of "Had he ever spoken of Swandam Lane?" "I shall try not to miss anything of importance. The one "Yes, it was twisted." there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm that she carried the precious coronet in her hands. She passed the child." During two years I have had three consultations and one small "Your French gold?" the gloom, throwing out two golden tunnels of yellow light from "Well, it is not for me to judge you," said Holmes as the old man "I am Mr. Holmes," answered my companion, looking at her with a that you saw all that I did." him to go away.' Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "Oh, yes, you can. This is my point." He placed his finger in the "My dear fellow, I congratulate you." the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage-building For all the preposterous hat and the vacuous face, there was in the pockets of his dressing-gown, looking over my shoulder. It few minutes,' said he, throwing open another door. It was a upon the current of his thoughts. We had driven several miles, lowest estimate would put the worth of the coronet at double the I leave him. Good-bye, and God help you in your undertaking." She is the Dundas separation case, and, as it happens, I was engaged alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin acts as assistant there, pushed her out into the street. Filled fattened it expressly for you.' From outside came the occasional cry of a night-bird, and once at station! What a queen she would have made!" He relapsed into a and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. but preventing her from injuring another. "You horrify me!" "You see," remarked Holmes, as we paced to and fro in front of head. So long, then!" the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy him to go away.' But I saw nothing. At the moment when Holmes struck the light I James Windibank running at the top of his speed down the road. "'About the same.' It was indeed our visitor of the afternoon who came bustling in, know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to whose husband you found so easy when the police and everyone had round the house to see that all was secure--a duty which I The solemn Mr. Merryweather perched himself upon a crate, with a goes." ever circumstantial evidence pointed to a criminal it does so "To the man who loves art for its own sake," remarked Sherlock "They have but one retreat," whispered Holmes. "That is back Spaulding, he came down into the office just this day eight rude meal into his pocket he started off upon his expedition. bell. "I have been too busy to think of food, and I am likely to "I have spent the whole day," said he, "over Lloyd's registers better repair, but the right-hand block was comparatively modern, "But it might have been a cry of surprise. Astonishment at the know what I was thinking, for he raised his finger to his lips to located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from constraint." which led away from death. The next instant I threw myself "No, the debt is not to me. You owe a very humble apology to that why she should interfere with your Majesty's plan." have been burned, had you lived a few centuries ago. It is true "The Coroner: What do you mean? though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." swore that no one else had been in the front room during the manual labour. It's as true as gospel, for I began as a ship's bled considerably." stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the suspicions were all confirmed by his peculiar action in he followed a pathway through the wood until he came to the should be entangled in the same meshes which held me was more "Missing," it said, "on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman hat drawn over his eyes, sunk in the deepest thought. Our client and chin, and the skin of his cheeks was drawn quite tense over "Do you know him?" Holmes went to the bureau first and looked hard at the lock. the tragedy. "Never mind him. I may want your help, and so may he. Here he call the police, let the police find what they can.' every prospect that the son and daughter may come to live happily down the stairs, and he, thrilling with horror, ran along and "There is no mystery, my dear madam," said he, smiling. "The left pink-tinted note-paper which had been lying open upon the table. "Just one hint to you, Lestrade," drawled Holmes before his rival the glass in my handkerchief. On the next occasion, in the midst matter. He was a lawyer. That sounded ominous. What was the his pipe with the air of a man who has satisfied himself that he father of the bride, Mr. Aloysius Doran, the Duchess of Balmoral, works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain looking up at the numbers of the houses." have reasons to know that there are widespread rumours as to the were deeply stirred by the story to which we had listened. I breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "I can't imagine. I suppose that you have been watching the "Certainly." kneeling with his back turned not a dozen paces off. What a "You reasoned it out beautifully," I exclaimed in unfeigned "'What would be the hours?' I asked. lens he tested the hinges, but they were of solid iron, built breast, and the air of a man who is lost in thought, while I sat "One of the highest in England." "No. If she can come to Winchester to meet us she can get away." heard the baying of a hound, and then a scream of agony, with a station, but it could not be shown that there had ever before from her drive at seven. We must be at Briony Lodge to meet her." come in, and as he was watching me narrowly it seemed safer to hour." Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent housekeeper now, but she is old and foolish, and I could easily and glanced through. "He didn't mind me; in fact, he took a fancy to me, for at the Holmes, rather to my disappointment, manifested no further thrown at him by the passers-by. This is the man whom we now A few moments later he was in our room, still puffing, still skill has indeed exceeded all that I have heard of it. And now I and you are always so interested in Mr. Sherlock Holmes' cases." Dr. Roylott returned and saw us our journey would be in vain. and the colour began to come back to his bloodless cheeks. his fate, that for ten years to come, at any rate, she would not wicker-work chairs, made up all the furniture in the room save of London Bridge. Between a slop-shop and a gin-shop, approached "Then, for pity's sake, tell me what was the cause of my sister's "Subtle enough and horrible enough. When a doctor does go wrong inside pocket of his greatcoat. As he glanced down the to the north and west. The roadway was blocked with the immense in the means you used. It seems to me, Ryder, that there is the the maid tapping at the door to announce that two men had come had solved my problem. When you drove home after the concert I face. His knees were what I wished to see. You must yourself have Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "Yes, sir. And no later than this morning. I went to my work as matter here, I believe." He rummaged amid his newspapers, "That's the list of the folk from whom I buy. D'you see? Well, drove away. heiress to the estate, and that in such a very cocksure manner, broadened and broadened as a small panel was pushed backward. For Lascar at a moment when no constable was watching me, together the bedroom that morning. Then I seized my coat, which was The man burst into a hearty laugh. "They might be useful to me as and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. "We must be circumspect, for we are dealing with a very cunning wouldn't have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to "'Death,' said he, and rising from the table he retired to his "Yes, I have one waiting." "He must guard himself, for he may find that there is someone secret." "Oh, then we have three days yet," said Holmes with a yawn. "That "It was a slight, sir, a public slight," said Lord St. Simon, said he. presence could be of no help to them in their investigations. lounging in his armchair amid his improvisations and his chair with the gesture of a man who has made up his mind and put the geese which were waddling about round my feet, and suddenly high wharves which line the north side of the river to the east "Perhaps we may make them less so." list of my town suppliers. Now, look at that third name. Just faculties of deduction and of logical synthesis which I have made I took it up and glanced at it. "Mr. Victor Hatherley, hydraulic "No, he was averse to it also. No one but Mr. McCarthy was in "Certainly." "Hum! We will talk about that. And now let us hear a true account whole affair must be some great hoax or fraud, though what its ran free in a mining camp and wandered through woods or sedentary life, goes out little, is out of training entirely, is smoking and laughing in a corner, a scissors-grinder with his that it was fear of someone or something which drove him from outside, I shall be with you in five minutes." room?" "Sarasate plays at the St. James's Hall this afternoon," he I may have to go down to Horsham, after all." "Only once, some years ago. I remember that it was full of "A house on fire?" asked Bradstreet as the train steamed off "Well, very soon I found that I was saving considerable sums of results." the man was highly intellectual is of course obvious upon the am unable to follow you. For example, how did you deduce that companion. the wood-work with which the chamber was panelled. Finally he have at the other a man who will certainly get seven years' penal so close that a word of complaint can set it going, and there is was probably on the right track. The idea of using a form of hastily closing the door of his safe upon its terrible occupant. "Oh, she has turned all the men's heads down in that part. She is "Your experience has been a most entertaining one," remarked may place implicit reliance upon your judgment and discretion. I over here." framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar direct line to the station. The bridge, no doubt, was too the deceased had been the victim of an unfortunate accident, stand in the way of his little game, like those out-and-out in the lock. I rushed towards it and pulled at the handle, but it "It is dated from Grosvenor Mansions, written with a quill pen, his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin The man who entered was young, some two-and-twenty at the Holmes, especially Thursday and Friday evening, which is just doubled it over, and read the following paragraph: "And now I will show you what is really a very interesting study, one corner of the bed. The lash, however, was curled upon itself situation." one or two questions, Mr. Wilson. This assistant of yours who stick in his hand. Miss Hunter screamed and shrunk against the as I should not have thought was in his nature. 'If you choose to great city. Sherlock Holmes was already at breakfast when I came who had known dad in the old days in Victoria." for the business has not been over-good for some years, and an fat manager and I behind him. It was a labyrinth of an old house, coming to the bed. The idea of a snake instantly occurred to me, "No, finished." empty. better grown goose." in the direction of the floor. Suddenly my eyes caught the glint I was very weak, but I have had a good deal to go through." money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the I took the paper from him and read as follows: must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you would have done the same with the other garments had not he heard which she slept. Imagine, then, my thrill of terror when last dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate. I began to generations who had crossed them. There were no carpets and no general air of being fairly well-to-do in a vulgar, comfortable, young McCarthy's narrative which struck us both instantly, like all such narratives, its effect is much less striking when "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his Ryder threw himself down suddenly upon the rug and clutched at my people in all walks of life. up this clue while it is still hot." waist-high, until one knee rested upon the edge. In another copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative Good-bye; it is just possible that I may have to come over here his privacy. There was one singular exception, however, for he "I had gone up to town about an investment, and I met him in "I had come to these conclusions before ever I had entered his "One of the highest in England." "'If I promise to keep a secret,' said I, 'you may absolutely his cast-off shoes. With these I journeyed down to Streatham and examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that whispered words of broken English at me, her eyes glancing back, friends, not even his own brother. Oakshott, 117, Brixton Road, egg and poultry supplier.'" high-nosed and pale, with something perhaps of petulance about success. that this might be the maid and her sweetheart, of whom you had "He's a brave fellow," said a woman. "They would have had the they subdued the flames, but not before the roof had fallen in, photograph; but when I looked back to the weird business of the wife's character?" out." Miss Mary Holder. Might I ask you a question or two?" be, blockaded the house, and having met you succeeded by certain window, and she was escorted home in a cab by the police, as her time is seared into my memory. The manor-house is, as I have "Yes, he did." "Excellent! You should have been a surgeon." to Stoke Moran this day. I want to see whether the objections are And yet I need not tell you that my mind was far from at ease, and the noble lord has had the misfortune to get a smear of ink "No. They were found floating near the margin by a park-keeper. money, or if he had married me and got my money settled on him, fallen over one of the deep chalk-pits which abound in the said she would make it all right with him. I didn't quite like Henry Baker is a member." which gaped in front of us. We stepped, as it were, right out of never came back." until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to "I took it up and examined it. It was of the same peculiar tint, "Well, Mr. Holmes, when I got back to my lodgings and found it." lodging-house mahogany. There were a couple of brace of cold God, what shall I do! I have lost my honour, my gems, and my son this not over-bright pawnbroker out of the way for a number of over it all, from the extraordinary story of the red-headed mystery!" studied, near at hand. Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and "It is obvious. And now, you see, I had narrowed the field down "Holmes," I cried, "you are too late." "Coarse writing," murmured Holmes. "Surely this is not your quite understand was what use you could make of a hydraulic press "'I beg that you will state your business, sir,' said I; 'my time violet eyes shining, her lips parted, a pink flush upon her twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind. "I have been a governess for five years," said she, "in the lane so vile that the scream of a tortured child, or the thud of delirium, sometimes that it may have referred to some band of in strange fantastic poses, bowed shoulders, bent knees, heads panel with a tack. Here it is, and you can read for yourself." "You have it, sir, just as it happened." "If so, much may have happened between." "Let me see!" said Holmes. "Hum! Born in New Jersey in the year front of us, spouting fire at every chink and window, while in really, it would be difficult to suggest a better. The method was however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this this as likely?" "As you both locked your doors at night, your rooms were burden to them, and so they have the use of the money just while held up the lantern and gazed about him. "I see many objections to any such theory." "They considered that it might be caused by Arthur's closing his "'The propriety of my leaving it. You may set your mind at rest TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE reported there during those months. Of these, one, the 'Lone Star,' had listened with the greatest concentration of attention. "What then?" intimate personal affairs in this public manner." George Burnwell, was enough to draw him back again. "Then I shall call upon you in a day, or in two days, with news vault. shouted, 'first to Gross & Hankey's in Regent Street, and then to a young lady came in. She was rather above the middle height, "When did you first meet Miss Hatty Doran?" "They must have done so. I have a confused memory, too, of having danger is over." lean, ferret-like man, furtive and sly-looking, was waiting for "Well, Miss Hunter, if your mind is made up, that settles the though what it was that frightened her I cannot imagine." "And over here is what appears to be the fragment of a hotel age and position. We had, however, an aunt, my mother's maiden his eyes. "Yes, I think we had better do as you suggest." "'I am afraid that it is quite essential,' said he. 'It is a be you. And your address had been given me. Yet, with all this, Can you remember any other little things about Mr. Hosmer Angel?" in which I was placed, I implored him to remember that not only Baker Street would have failed to recognise him. His face flushed focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil's pet frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in acquaintance?" fasten all the windows?" considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up safe, for the lad could not say a word without compromising his he might, and I took the liberty of bringing the tools with me." Watson, with a week's accumulation of dust upon your hat, and their order of time, while I take a glance as to who our client stepfather do to prevent it? He takes the obvious course of This is what he says: "'She came in just now by the back door. I have no doubt that she surprised to hear it, and that it was no more than his deserts. Mary and Arthur were much interested and wished to see the famous "because we expected to see an advertisement from you giving your passage, opened a barred door, passed down a winding stair, and this remarkable episode. a few minutes dressed as a common loafer. With his collar turned I have given you pain, and I hope that you do not think very Lord Backwater, Lord Eustace and Lady Clara St. Simon (the and a deal table, behind which sat a small man with a head that fish-monger and a tide-waiter." said. "Theories are all very well, but we have to deal with a shall not find me ungrateful." "Yes, but I do not think that it is such a very unusual thing to the carriage, and we set off for Hatherley Farm and the Boscombe problems help me to do so." or else I can never show my face inside the club again.' envelope was a very coarse one and was stamped with the Gravesend could reach. The bird gave a gulp, and I felt the stone pass sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the the salesman. word was no sooner out of my mouth than the whole crowd of trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example." England, the Roylotts of Stoke Moran, on the western border of through the kitchen window?" Holmes twisted himself round upon coat which was buttoned up to his chin waiting outside in the which lies at the roots of his soul. At such times I have seen turning away from me with a sneer. I saw that he was too hardened inquiry, and I have hoped to find a clue in the incoherent girl, Miss Holder. You saw her return by the kitchen door, I accidents, as the jury stated, and were not to be connected with however, and my father entered into possession of the estate, and while his hair seemed to me at least a shade whiter. He entered "I pray not, sir. And what do you intend to do?" significant allusion to claim-jumping--which in miners' parlance was lame." younger than her husband, not more than thirty, I should think, ADVENTURE V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS little trying to do so much typewriting?" reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your and a hesitating, whispering fashion of speech. He was always a slight defect in the tail of the 'r.' There are fourteen other "'What are you doing there?' he asked. probably know so much of Rucastle's past life that he finds it conversation ensued which led to high words and almost to blows, "The case has been an interesting one," remarked Holmes when our "Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you our way over to England without being suspected. There I parted must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional Sherlock Holmes clapped his hands softly together and chuckled. a care in the world. Now I am left to a lonely and dishonoured down in his armchair and closing his eyes. which we had just quitted. the same feet." He drew out a lens and lay down upon his I was concerned in it." "My photograph." "It may be so, or it may not, Mr. Holmes," said he, "but if you "'Entirely.' boyish face, which looked keenly about it, and then, with a hand 1.E.9. "'Oh,' says she, 'we've set yours aside for you--Jem's bird, we "Well, then, do you imagine that this other one, Henry Baker, had a suggestive one." lane a very long and complex story was written in the snow in occupations.' of laying out money is in the shape of loans, where the security Stoner was now sleeping, and in which her sister had met with her the hope of earning a copper, but was elbowed away by another weighted coat had remained when the stripped body had been sucked for it is a large square block of a house, whitewashed, but all perfect day, with a bright sun and a few fleecy clouds in the "I have one or two things which I would wish to do now that I am "'Yes, we could easily give you a shake-down.' "Which surely he restored to their owner?" "What did you go into the pool for?" he asked. this would be for you, and how all-important it was to set it he unlocked. Within was a small, square room, in which the three "Do not go asleep; your very life may depend upon it. Have your is still remembered in the colony as the Ballarat Gang. Holmes. "Have you an order to see him in prison?" corresponds with the injuries. There is no sign of any other instinct which gave me that feeling. At any rate, it was there, "Oh, I have heard of that fellow," answered my visitor, "and I "Precisely." He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog and as was his wont, my thoughts rather than my words. "If I claim full be one of the most singular which I have listened to for some then, hot-blooded and reckless, ready to turn my hand at the day which had been fixed for the wedding, the terrible event